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At  a  Scllion  of  tlic  Great  ar.J  GENeRaL  COURT 

i-.dd  «c  Bofron,  Qaabtt  i4tl).  1713.    ' 

TiScfolbcb, 
HAT  >c  ,s  tor  Her  Majcaics  Service  tl,cr.  be  fon^c  Town  rt  ■ 
regularly  Planted  and  Sctlcd  in  cIk  mo't  iw^S.  "''?* 

tl.e  Counry  ofM,    in  the  late  Provinee  o.  ;.^,'^:''"""=  """""■  ■" 

iM.-il  a  Committee  be  Appointed  by  this  Courr  rn  R^r.- 
Fxam.ne  into  the  Claims  of  all  Pcrfons  whatlbev  r.'  o\a„"  ^  ]f 
)atc  rovuiee  of  vy.^„  ;  ,vho  are  therefore  Ord  red  within  Th'^° 
Months  next  coming,  to  (Ikw  forth  their  Titles  accordinjy  ^'"'* 
iHAT  there  be  Five  Town-ll.ips  allowed  at  prefcnt ;  On-  at  «/  * 
/-<-/«,  One  at  S.o,  One  at  OUCafo,  One  at  North  Tarv,c«th  ^dOn'lf 
at  the  Mouth  of  At„«-lici  River.  <"•'"»»«,  and  One 

THAT  in  Order  tlicre-unto  the  abovc-faid  Committee  do  forth-Wrh 
Meet,  Appoint  their  Clerks.and  by  them  give  Convenient  Publick  Not  ce 
Ofthe,r  Powers  and  Orders,  and  of  the  eertain  Times  and  Places  of  t" 
Od  Ccn,m,ttees  Meeting,  in  Order  to  their  bringing  in  their  rcrped  ve 
Claims,  which  being  done  to  the  Satisfadion  of  fhc  Committee -Thl 
are  Impowrcd  to  Admit  them  or  others  for  them,  with  their  Confenc  to 
the  Number  of  One  Hundred  Families  for  each  Place,  who  (hall  ttdlZ 
Cofc  andDefenfible  near  theSea-fide,  upon  fmall  Lots,  notExccS 
3hrce  or  Four  Acres  to  each  Family,  with  Accommodations  in  1 '"§ 
fuicably  Extended  for  the  Eteding  a  Town-ihip.  '' 

THAT  the  above-named  Committee,  Do  report  the  Claims  and  Pro 
polals   of  the   Proprietors  and  Otliers.  for  the  Orderly  Settlement  of 
the  Jaid  Towns,  unto  the  next  Sellion  ol  this  Court,  that  fo  a  furthc 
Confidcration  m^y  be  had  therc-upon. 

THAT  no  Pcrlbn  or  Family  prcfumc  in  the  mean  time,  and  before 
the  Committee  fliall  Proceed  to  Order  the  proper  Places,  Except  Tork 
^•tt,ry,  B„rmck  and  U'e/ls,  to  Build  or  Settle  in  any  part  of  thaJ 
County  wuhout  Licenic  Hrft  had  from  the  Governour  and  Council. 

Ata  Scilioii  ol"t!ie  Great  iwvX  General  Court,  HeU  at  JSoftOtT 

ircbruarp  loth.  171 3.  ' 

HAT  there  be  forthwith  Ordered  a  Survey  of  afuitabic  Place  to 
Erea  a  Town  at  or  about  Cj/-«;  theHoulb  Lots  to  be  laid  our 
anoaluitablc  Quantity  of  Out-Land  Allotted  for  them:  Which  done* 
the  Proprietors  thereof  to  be  Notified  and  Allowed  to  Settle  the  fame* 
according  to  the  Method  propofcd  by  this  Court ;  and  upon  their  Re- 
lufal,  the  General  Court  to  have  further  Confidcration  thereof. 

THAT  there  be  forthwith  Imprinted  a  (ufficient  Number  of  the 
Rcfolvcsof  the  General  Court,  to  be  difperfcd  into  all  the  Towns  of 
this  Province;  and  that  the  Proprietors  of  Land  at  Black  Pcint,  Sacc 
QUCofct,  North  Turmouth,  and  the  Land  upon  Xenxeleck  Hner  bo 
duedlcd  to  Attend  the  Committee  ro  flicw  forth  their  Claims  'and 
offer  their  Propofals  about  Settling  the  faid  Towns  ;  and  further  Time 
of  Six  Months  be  allowed  for  the  lame. 

And  that  the  Names  of  the  Committee,  with  the  Time  and  Place  of 
their  Sitting,  be  alfo  inferred. 

.  Sffaac  :3tlH)i'ngton,  Secr. 

aOilOii:  fiint^Jby  e.ant,,,  J>riiiKr  to  Hi>  Lxcdfency  tl.c  aOV,& COUNCIL.  ,7,;. 


The  Mamct  cf  tfic 
Committee. 

Eliftia  Hutchinfon  /Tj, 
llaac  Addington    If},: 
John  Phillip^s  f/o," 
Paul  Dudley  EjL 
Jolm  Clarke  iK,- 
Edmund  Quinlcy  f/,,. 
Thomas  Oliver  f:r«i- 
f-  WilUam  DcmVon 
''i.Jolin  Whit». 


Tie   Comrai'ttec    Meet 

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Resolutions  of  the  Great  and  General  Court,  as  printed  and  published  by  the  Governor 
and  Council,  jjij.      From  the  original  in  the  Boston  Athenaeum. 


JOURNALS 

of  the 

House  of  Representatives 

Of  His  Majefty's  Province  of  the 
MalTachufetts-Bay 

17  IS 


Edited  by 
WORTHINGTON    CHAUNCEY    FORD 


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BOSTON,    Majfachufetts 
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CONTENTS 

Preface ix 

List  of  Members xvii 

Journals,  May  Session i 

July  Session 35 

August  Session 51 

Minutes  of  the  Governor  and  Council 

November-December 59 

INDEX 99 


[ix] 


[^Royal  arms  used  in  the  session  laws  of  May  and  "July.,  T/^IJ-] 


A  COPY  of  the  printed  Journals  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  his 
Majesty's  Province  of  the  Massachusetts-Bay  in  New  England  for  the 
session  which  began  at  Boston  on  May  25,  17 15,  was  given  to  Samuel 
Sewall  by  the  printer,  Bartholomew  Green,  on  July  12,  three  weeks  after 
the  Governor  had  in  angry  mood  prorogued  that  body.  Stung  by  a  slighting  com- 
ment passed  by  Governor  Dudley  on  their  proceedings,  the  members  of  the  House 
determined  to  print  the  full  Journal  of  the  session,  as  the  best  means  of  defending 
themselves.  Thus  began  a  practice  of  printing  the  Journals  of  the  House  which  was 
continued  in  an  almost  unbroken  series  till  the  Revolutionary  War.  The  conven- 
ience of  having  the  record  in  such  a  form  would  alone  have  justified  the  publication ; 
as  time  passed,  the  political  advantages  were  also  recognized,  and  the  long  contro- 
versies arising  between  the  Governor  and  the  House,  or  between  the  Council  and  the 
House,  led  to  many  papers,  worthy  to  be  called  state  papers,  being  spread  upon 
the  pages  of  the  Journals.  Such  publications  were  intended  more  for  the  constituents 
of  the  House  than  for  any  effect  they  could  produce  upon  those  immediately  engaged 
in  the  controversies ;  and,  in  the  absence  of  an  active  press,  the  political  questions 
received  their  discussion  in  messages,  addresses,  declarations,  or  the  more  formal 
proclamations,  —  the  most  final  of  all  expressions  of  opinion. 

The  beginnings  of  this  publication  were  small  and  uncertain.  The  clerk  of  the 
House  was  directed  to  prepare  a  copy  of  the  Journal,  and  the  representatives  of 
Boston  were  desired  to  take  care  that  the  printing  was  seasonably  done.  The  ques- 
tion of  cost  does  not  appear  to  have  been  considered  at  this  time ;  but  the  expediency 
of  continuing  to  print  was  at  once  recognized,  and  in  the  second  session  of  this 
General  Court  measures  were  taken  to  learn  the  cost,  and  provide  for  the  future 
regular  appearance  of  the  votes  or  minutes  during  the  session.  On  June  30,  17 15, 
the  representatives  of  the  Town  of  Boston  were  again  desired  to  take  the  care  of 
printing  the  Journals  of  the  session,  and  "  to  Treat  with  a  Printer  about  the 
Terms  upon  which  they  may  be  Printed  here  after."  ^  Green  was  at  this  time 
printer  to  the  Governor  and  Council,  and  appears  to  have  been  the  only  printer 
who  submitted  an  estimate.  He  offered  to  print  the  Journals  of  the  House  "  and 
all  the  other  Printing  directed  by  the  Government,  for  the  space  of  Seven  Years  next 
coming;  and  to  furnish  each  Member  of  this  Court,  with  a  Copy  of  the  said  Votes, 
free  of  charge,  on  each  Tuesday,  Thursday  and  Saturday,  of  the  several  Sessions,  dur- 
ing that  Term,  upon  his  being  Allowed  Thirty  Pounds  per  Annum  for  his  Service."* 
This  offer  was  accepted  by  the  House,  and  the  concurrence  of  the  Council  was  de- 
sired, but  not  given.     The  session  came  to  an  end  while  the  matter  was  before  the 

Council, 

'  Post,  p.  48.  c  *  I^i'^-i  ?•  $'• 


Council,  and  so  the  care  of  the  printing  of  the  Journal  fell  upon  the  representatives 
of  Boston,  "upon  the  foot  of  the  Agreement  with  Mr.  Green  the  Printer." 

Thus  for  three  sessions  the  House  of  Representatives  took  upon  itself  the  print- 
ing of  its  votes  and  minutes,  without  any  encouragement  from  the  Governor  and 
Council.  The  fourth  and  last  session  began  on  November  23,  and  continued  until 
December  22,  but  the  Journal  was  not  printed,  as  the  following  entry  in  the  pro- 
ceedings in  the  House  on  June  27,  1716,  proves:  "An  Accompt  of  Bartholomew 
Green,  for  Printing  the  Journal  of  this  House,  in  their  Sessions  begun  in  May,  July 
and  August,  the  last  Year,  and  finding  Paper,  Folding  and  Stitching  them,  Amount- 
ing to  the  Sum  of  I.11  ijs.  Gd.  Presented  to  the  House  for  Payment"  —  and 
allowed.  Had  the  Journal  of  the  November  session  been  printed,  it  would  have 
been  mentioned  with  the  others. 

It  is  to  be  noticed  that  in  each  case  the  entire  session  was  printed  as  one  piece, 
and  without  title-pages.  The  form  adopted  was  modelled  after  that  of  the  printed 
laws,  and  had  been  used  by  the  Governor  and  Council  when  they  issued  any  resolves 
of  the  General  Court.  I  have  found  one  such  resolve  in  the  collections  of  the 
Boston  Athenseum,  and  have  reproduced  it  in  a  reduced  form  to  serve  as  a  frontis- 
piece to  this  volume.  It  is  the  only  issue  in  that  form  that  I  have  seen,  and  might 
easily  be  mistaken  for  a  page  from  the  printed  Journals,  although  no  Journals  were 
printed  until  17 15. 

In  default  of  the  Journal  of  the  House  of  Representatives  for  its  November 
session  (and  the  original  manuscript  records  were  long  since  destroyed),  I  have 
given  the  minutes  of  the  Governor  and  Council  during  the  sitting.  Partial  though 
this  record  is,  so  far  as  the  proceedings  of  the  House  are  concerned,  it  is  better  than 
nothing,  and  at  least  shows  what  business  was  sent  up  from  the  House.  The 
minutes  may  also  be  accepted  as  the  best  contemporary  record  of  public  business,  as 
they  alone  were  copied  to  be  sent  to  the  English  ministry,  and  not  until  the  prac- 
tice of  printing  the  House  Journals  was  introduced  were  these  latter  sent  in  like 
manner  to  the  British  authorities. 

The  political  history  of  this  session  calls  for  little  notice,  as  it  turns  more  upon 
the  change  in  the  governorship  than  on  any  other  factor.  I  have  so  fully  described  in 
another  place  the  contest  between  the  Governor  and  the  Council  for  control  of  the 
government  on  the  death  of  Queen  Anne,  that  there  is  no  necessity  for  attempting 
a  summary  of  that  intrigue.^  Governor  Dudley  was  restored  to  power  by  the  act 
of  the  King,  but  enjoyed  the  office  only  a  short  time.  For  about  a  month  before 
the  date  of  the  session  it  was  known  that  Col.  Elizeus  Burges  had  been  appointed 
Governor. 

It  would  be  unprofitable  to  exhume  Elizeus  or  Elisha  Burges  from  the  oblivion 
which  now  engulfs  him.  Perhaps  it  would  be  unkind  to  do  so,  for  the  little  we 
know  of  him  is  not  greatly  to  his  credit.  There  was  a  commission  issued  from  Ken- 
sington, 13  March,  1693,  appointing  him  to  be  "  Brigdr  and  Eld-Lieut."  in  the 
Second  Troop  of  Life  Guard,  but  he  had  dropped  from  the  regiment  in  1694,  We 
know  that  he  served  under  General  James,  afterwards  Earl  Stanhope,  in  Spain,  per- 
haps participating  in  the  capture  of  Minorca  in  1708,  and  in  the  surrender  at 
Brihuega  in  1710.  Stanhope  became  second  Secretary  of  State  in  1714,  under 
George  I,  and  Hutchinson  tells  us  that  it  was  by  Stanhope's  interest  that  Burges 
was  appointed  in  February,  17 15  (the  commission  passed  the  seals  March  17),  and 
Sir  William  Ashurst  wrote  that  the  General  (Stanhope)  had  promised  to  be  answer- 
able for  his  (Burges)  good  behavior.^ 

If  Dudley  was  already  discontented,  the  intelligence  of  the  new  appointment  was 
not  fitted  to  soothe  his  feelings.  Bodily  ills  came  to  him  as  an  added  discomfort, 
and  the  first  day  of  the  sitting  found  him  confined  by  a  fit  of  gout  to  his  house  in 

Roxbury. 

'  See  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  December,  1901,  p,  327. 
"  Hutchinson,  History  of  Massachusetts,  II,  192  (ed.  1795). 


[xi] 

Roxbury.  He  gave  a  Dedimus  to  Col.  Phillips,  Col.  Lynde  and  Judge  Sewall  to 
administer  the  oaths  to  the  Deputies.  This  they  did,  and  listened  to  the  election 
sermon  of  Rev.  Jeremiah  Shepard,  of  Lynn,  who  preached  from  Isaiah  Ixiii.  12: 
"That  led  them  by  the  Right  Hand  of  Moses,  with  His  Glorious  Arm,  Dividing 
the  Water  before  them,  to  make  Himself  an  Everlasting  Name."  A  single  sentence 
of  this  discourse  will  show  its  tendency:  "A  work  never  to  be  forgotten,  is  the 
Lord's  preparing  this  wilderness  for  his  people  when  he  swept  away  thousands  of 
those  salvage  Tawnies  (those  cursed  Devil  worshippers)  with  a  mortal  Plague,  to 
make  room  for  a  better  People."  ^  The  Deputies  then  dined  at  the  Green  Dragon, 
and  later  elected  the  Councillors,  all  of  whom  were  satisfactory  to  the  Governor 
except  Nathaniel  Byfield,  long  an  object  of  Dudley's  personal  dislike. 

It  was  not  until  May  31  that  the  Governor  was  able  to  come  into  Boston, 
and  in  the  following  fashion:  "Was  carried  in  Cous.  Dumer's  Sedan:  but  twas  too 
tall  for  the  Stairs,  so  was  fain  to  be  taken  out  near  the  top  of  them.  He  vehemently 
urg'd  passing  the  Ministers'  Motion  for  a  Synod."  ^  Thus  it  happens  that  there 
was  no  message  or  paper  from  the  Governor  at  the  opening  of  the  session.  For  the 
first  time  in  his  long  and  not  untroubled  career,  Dudley  had  nothing  to  say  or  to  write 
to  the  Great  and  General  Court.  Bodily  ill  may  in  part  account  for  this  omission, 
but  it  may  also  be  assumed  that  mental  distress  played  a  share  in  making  the  Governor 
silent  on  this  occasion.  The  representative  of  the  King  in  the  Province  followed 
the  practice  of  the  King  at  home,  and  the  message  to  the  Assembly  was  the  counter- 
part of  the  message  or  King's  speech  in  Parliament  at  the  beginning  of  the  session. 

The  cause  of  the  printing  of  the  Journal  is  given  on  page  34  of  this  publication, 
and  bears  every  evidence  of  being  a  true  account.  The  Governor  was  not  a  man 
who  softened  his  expressions  of  opinion.  Sewall's  Diary  gives  a  number  of  examples, 
where,  perhaps,  the  zeal  of  a  partisan  has  not  made  the  words  any  gentler  than  the 
reality  and  may  have  added  somewhat  to  their  force.  "  A  Comittee  brought  in 
something  about  Piscataqua.  Gov'  said  he  would  give  his  head  in  a  Stand-Basket 
as  soon  as  he  would  pass  it."  When  Dummer  was  appointed  agent  of  the  Province 
in  England,  Dudley,  to  whom  he  was  obnoxious,  burst  out  that  "  he  will  be  drawn 
asunder  with  wild  horses,  before  he  will  be  thrust  upon  as  last  year."  It  will  be 
interesting  to  add  the  version  of  Judge  Sewall:  "Tuesday,  June  21.  In  the  Fore- 
noon Gov'  signifies  his  Intention  to  prorogue  the  Court;  had  sat  4  weeks  and  done 
nothing,  were  distemper'd.  Bill  for  the  Tax  Read ;  I  express'd  my  desire  that  the 
voting  of  it  might  be  left  to  a  longer  time,  at  least  to  the  afternoon :  but  the  Gov' 
would  have  it  voted  then  ;  and  it  past  in  the  Negative  because  't  was  but  for  i  i,ooOj^. 
I  voted  not  because  of  great  moment,  and  so  suddenly  call'd  for.  Deputies  are  sent 
for  in,  and  the  Court  prorogued  to  the  20th  July  at  10.  m."  * 

While  the  appointment  of  Burges  was  well  known  in  the  Province,  no  official 
notice  from  the  ministry  had  been  received  when  the  Assembly  met  on  the  day  ap- 
pointed. Dudley  desired  a  short  session,  and  in  fact  there  was  little  to  be  done 
beyond  providing  the  treasury  with  money  and  paying  some  regard  to  the  condition 
of  the  bills  of  credit,  already  threatened  with  disparagement,  and  a  menace  to 
sound  public  credit.  These  two  questions,  however,  were  precisely  the  two  ques- 
tions on  which  there  was  the  greatest  difference  of  opinion  between  the  House  and 
the  Council.  The  former,  as  the  popular  body,  responded  more  quickly  to  the 
wishes  of  the  people;  and  the  people  had  tasted  of  the  first  delights  of  a  resort  to 
paper  money,  and  began  to  see  in  that  dangerous  instrument  a  means  of  relieving 
themselves  of  the  necessity  of  taxation,  while  supplying  a  medium  of  exchange. 
The   House  would  divide    the  amount  of  the   tax  already  passed  and   submitted 

to 

*  Mr.  Lindsay  Swift  says,  "  I  have  not  come  across  a  more  heartless  Pharisaism  than  this."  —  Colonial 
Society  of  Massachusetts,  I,  414. 

'  Diary  of  Samuel  Sewall,  III,  47. 
»  Ibid.,  Ill,  47. 


[xii] 

to  the  authorities  in  England,  postponing  the  collection  of  one-half  of  it  to  a  later 
year.  To  this  the  Governor  and  Council  were  greatly  opposed,  and  thus  arose  the 
dead-lock  between  the  two  bodies.  The  session  continued  to  August  i,  without 
result,  and  thus  another  session,  from  August  24  to  27,  was  made  necessary,  but 
again  with  only  partial  results  so  far  as  the  principal  issues  were  concerned.  The 
Governor  prorogued  the  Assembly  to  September  28,  and  on  September  22 
issued  a  proclamation  proroguing  the  meeting  to  October  26.  These  were  among 
the  last  acts  of  Dudley's  official  career. 

After  the  Governor  had  issued  this  proclamation  an  incident  occurred  of  some 
interest.  A  new  Secretary  of  the  Province,  Samuel  Woodward,  arrived  bringing  a 
letter  of  recommendation  from  the  new  Governor,  Colonel  Burges,  addressed  to  the 
President  and  Council.  The  day  after  his  commission  was  produced  a  Council 
meeting  was  held,  and  Sewall  gives  at  length  what  passed : 

"  Gov'  sits  by  the  side  of  the  Table  facing  to  the  South ;  L'  Gov'  [Tailer]  in  one 
of  the  South  windows.  The  Comissions  were  produc'd  and  Read,  Oaths  given. 
Then  the  L'  Gov'  stood  up  and  with  deference  enquired  whether  his  Comission  did 
not  supersede  the  Govf  The  Gov'  answered  No.  L'  Gov'  said  he  reckon'd  himself 
oblig'd  to  propound  it.  Should  rest  in  the  Council's  Opinion.  Some  Debate  was 
had.  Col.  Hutchinson  propounded  there  might  be  a  fuller  Council.  Others  said 
'twas  requisite  it  should  be  iiriediatly  determin'd.  Capt.  [Andrew]  Belchar  answered 
in  the  Negative.  Mr.  [John]  Clark  seem'd  to  hesitat.  1  express'd  my  self  that  I 
was  of  Col.  Hutchinson's  mind,  but  if  my  answer  was  now  expected,  I  said  that, 
seeing  the  L'  Gov"  Comission  directed  him  to  Govern  by  the  Comission  and  Instruc- 
tions of  Gov'  Burgess,  in  case  of  his  death  or  absence,  I  was  of  Opinion  that  the 
L'  Gov"  Comission  did  not  impower  him  to  be  Comander  in  Chief  of  this  Province: 
Because  neither  the  Comission  nor  Instructions,  Nor  any  Authentick  Copy  of  them, 
refer'd  to  in  it,  were  arrived.  L'  Gov'  did  not  like  the  Vote  should  be  so  put.  'T  was 
propounded  to  put  it,  v/hether  the  Governour  did  not  abide. 

"The  Gov'  call'd  for  the  Proclamation,  which  was  read.  L'  Gov'  said.  Now  other 
provision  was  made,  he  had  a  Comission  from  King  George.  Mr.  Cooke  said, 
making  other  provision  refer'd  to  the  charter.  Others  said.  The  clause  refer'd  to 
what  was  pass'd,  not  to  what  was  to  come  hereafter.  At  length  the  Gov'  dictated 
to  the  Clerk  to  this  purpose.  Whether  the  Government  was  devolved  on  the  Lieut. 
Gov.',  the  Comission  of  Gov'  Burgess,  nor  any  copy  of  it,  by  which  was  to  govern, 
not  being  arrived.  It  was  Nemine  contradicente,  carried  in  the  Negative.  [Wait] 
Winthrop,  Cooke,  Elisha  Hutchinson,  [Samuel]  Sewall,  Joseph  Lynde,  Eliakim 
Hutchinson,  [Andrew]  Belchar,  [Edward]  Bromfield,  [John]  Clark,  [Addington] 
Davenport,  Thomas  Hutchinson,   All  Noes."  -^ 

The  attempt  to  throw  Dudley  from  the  Governor's  chair  was  thus  foiled  for  the 
time,  and  to  escape  further  contest  with  the  Assembly  he  again  postpones  the  day 
of  meeting : 

"  Third-day  8'  18.  The  Gov'  prorogues  the  Gen!  Court  to  the  23"*  Nov!  I  and 
Mr.  Clark  voted  against  it.  Gov'  pretended  Deference  to  Gov'  Burgess  in  doing  it, 
in  expectance  of  his  Arrival ;  but  in  the  Proclamation,  never  read  to  the  Council, 
he  said  nothing  of  it,  which  was  gravamlnous  to  some."  ^  His  opponents  had  not 
been  idle,  and  were  intent  upon  obtaining  from  England  the  papers  needed  to 
establish  their  contention.  Early  in  November  the  needed  copy  of  Col.  Burgess's 
commission  reached  Boston,  and  the  government  devolved  on  Lieutenant  Governor 
Tailer.  It  was  Dudley's  old  opponent.  Colonel  Byfield  who  brought  the  commis- 
sion, and  inveighed  against  "our  Agent  Dumer  for  betraying  him  after  Dumer  had 
given  him  his  Word  and  Hand  that  he  had  done  with  Dudley."  There  was 
nothing  for  Dudley  to  do  but  to  acquiesce  in  the  act  of  the  King,  and  so  it  was  the 
new  Lieutenant  Governor  who  met  the  Assembly  in  its  November  meeting. 

The 

1  Diary  of  Samuel  Sewall,  III,  58,  59.  «  IbU..  Ill,  6z. 


[  x"i  ] 

The  newspaper  of  the  day  gave  an  account  of  the  ceremonies  attending  the  change 
of  head,  and  the  notice  of  the  next  session  of  the  General  Court : 

"On  Wednefday  laft  an  Exemplification  of  His  Majefty's  Moft  Gracious  Letters 
Patents,  bearing  date  the  17th  of  March  laft,  Conftituting,  and  Appointing  Elizeus 
Surges  Efq  ;  His  Captain  General,  and  Governour  in  chief  in,  and  over  this  His 
Majefty's  Province  of  the  Maffachu/etts-Bay,  were  Read,  and  Publifhed ;  upon  which 
the  Cannon  of  the  Caftle,  and  the  South  Battery  of  the  Town  were  difcharged. 

"  Then  the  Honorable  William  Tailer  Efq  ;  Lieut.  Governour  of  the  faid 
Province,  by  virtue  of  the  Powers,  and  Authorities  there  into  him  granted,  and  His 
Majefty's  Commiffion  to  him,  bearing  date  the  28th  oi  April  laft,  (being  firft  duely 
Sworn)  Ifliied  forth  a  Proclamation,  by,  and  with  the  Advice  and  Confent  of  the 
Council,  Requiring  all  Officers  Civil,  and  Military,  to  continue  in,  and  proceed  to 
the  Execution  and  Difcharge  of  their  refpedive  Trufts,  and  Offices,  till  further  Order. 

"After  which  the  Honourable  Lieut.  Governour  invited  the  Counfellors,  the 
Reprefentatives  of  Bojlon,  and  the  Gentlemen  prefent  to  his  Houfe,  Where  His 
Majefty's,  the  Prince's,  and  all  the  Royal  Family's  Health  were  Drank,  as  alfo  Col. 
Burgess,  Col.  Dudley  s,  and  Profperity  to  the  Trade,  and  Welfare  of  this  Province. 

"  I  am  Commanded  to  give  Notice,  That  the  Great,  and  General  Court,  or 
Aflembly  is  appointed  to  meet  upon  Wednefday  the  23d  of  this  Inftant  November^ 
it  being  the  day  to  which  it  now  ftands  Prorogued,  and  then  to  fit  and  do  bufinefs; 
and  all  Perfons  therein  concerned,  are  to  take  due  notice  thereof,  and  conform  them- 
felves  accordingly. 

"  By  the  Honourable  Lieut.  Governour s 
"  Bofton,  Novemb.  Command  with  Advice  of  the  Council, 

9th.  1715.  Samuel  Woodward  .Jiffr."' 

Sewall  in  his  Diary  describes  the  opening  of  the  last  session  of  this  Assembly : 

"Nov'  23.  L'  Gov'  makes  a  Cold  Treat  to  the  Councillours  and  Comission 
Officers.  Was  not  a  House  in  the  Fore-noon.  Mr.  Speaker  and  many  Deputies 
visited  the  L'  Gov'  A.  M.  A  little  after  3  L'  Gov'  proceeded  to  the  Town  House. 
I  went  on  his  right  Hand,  Col.  Lynde  on  his  Left ;  Capt.  Dyer  and  two  of  his 
Officers  went  before  him  ;  before  them,  Mr.  Winchcomb  bare-headed.  Two  Trumpets, 
4  Serjeants  in  red  Cloaths  with  Horlberts.  Major  Gen'  [Wait  Winthrop],  Col. 
Hutchinson,  Capt.  Hutchinson  met  the  L'  Gov'  at  the  Town-House.  By  [John] 
Cushing,  [Nathanael]  Norden,  [Addington]  Davenport,  L'  G.  sent  Message  to  the 
Deputies ;  The  Lieut.  Gov'  is  in  the  Chair  and  expects  your  Attendance.  Seem'd 
to  be  out  of  Breath  in  reading  his  Speech." 

On  November  24  Mr.  Cooke  and  others  brought  a  message  from  the  Lieutenant 
Governor  appointing  an  election  to  fill  the  vacancies  in  the  Council — four  in 
number. 

"Dec'  I.  Election.  Voted  twice,  and  brought  it  to  Nothing:  Voters,  76. 
Major  Bond  who  was  the  highest  had  32.  Deputies  voted  to  chuse  only  one  in  the 
room  of  him  Negativ'd  :   Council  came  not  into  it.     I  said,  All  or  none. 

"  Dec'  2.  Voters  79.  [Penn]  Townsend  chosen  by  41  votes.  4th  Stroke, 
Voters  75.     Thomas  Noyes  Esqr.  chosen  by  53  Votes. 

"Province  of  Main,  Voters  71. 

"Adam  Winthrop  Esqr.  chosen  by  52. 

"  At  Large,  Voters,  69. 

"  Nathan!  Byfield  Esqr.  chosen  by  60."  * 

The  choice  was  approved  by  the  Lieutenant  Governor,  and  the  new  Councillors 
took  the  oath.  The  advent  to  the  Council  Board  of  Col.  Byfield  foreshadowed 
trouble  for  Agent  Dummer,  who  was  unfortunate  enough  to  antagonize  this  active 
politician.     The  Assembly  in   its  August  session  had  omitted  to  grant  the  usual 

allowance 

•  Beflen  News-Letter,  7-14  November,  1715.  =  Diary  »f  Samuel  Sewall,  III,  69. 


[xiv] 

allowance  to  Dummer,  a  measure  in  all  probability  instigated  by  Byfield.  That  the 
action  was  not  entirely  just  to  the  Agent  is  shown  by  the  grant  of  ;^200  made  by 
the  Assembly  in  its  November  session,  but  disallowed  by  the  Lieutenant  Governor. 

"Xr.  21  Now  about  the  Gov'  disallows  the  Votes  for  giving  our  Agent  Mr. 
Dummer  £0.00.  And  for  continuing  him  Agent.  I  voted  to  the  first  but  express'd 
my  Doubtfullness  as  to  the  latter,  when  I  heard  what  was  pleaded  by  Col.  Byfield  as 
to  his  Unacceptableness  to  Gov'  Burgess,  and  the  Ministers.  I  also  Consider'd  his 
giving  up  in  print  the  place  of  the  Attorney  General  as  Reserv'd  in  the  Charter  to 
the  King  —  and  writ  hardly  to  any  of  the  Council:  but  very  largely  to  the  Speaker, 
and  to  Mr.  White.     Gov'  prorogues  the  Court  to  the  11^  of  February."  ^ 

Dummer  had  warm  supporters  in  the  Province,  and  as  a  rule  they  were  also 
supporters  of  Dudley.  For  example  Rev.  Eben  Pemberton  was  "very  warm  about 
the  Agent,"  and  regarded  Tailer  as  a  "  usurper,"  occupying  a  position  that  rightly 
belonged  to  Dudley.  His  wife  was  quite  as  good  a  politician,  and  asserted  that 
the  Agent  had  been  handled  barbarously,  an  opinion  which  led  the  pious  Sewall,  who 
received  at  the  hands  of  Tailer  on  the  next  day  a  commission  as  Judge  of  the 
Superior  Court,  to  remark:  "The  people  made  light  of  the  errand  of  God's  people 
hither;  indifferent"^  —  perhaps  an  early  form  of  the  creed  that  "to  the  victors 
belong  the  spoils."  Sewall's  position  is  all  the  more  remarkable  because  he  was 
a  kinsman  of  Dummer;  but  his  political  creed  was  summed  up  in  the  dogma,  "I 
was  for  upholding  Government  whether  in  or  out  of  it."' 

Apart  from  the  Journals  this  session  was  not  rich  in  issues  from  the  press.  The 
election  sermon  was  printed  as  usual,  and  the  title-page  was  as  follows: 

"  God's  Conduct  of  His  Church  |  Through  the  Wilderness,  |  With  His  |  Glorious 
Arm,  1  To  make  Himself  an  |  Everlasting  Name.  |  A  |  Sermon  |  Preached  by  Order 
of  the  Honourable  |  Representatives,  of  the  Province  of  |  the  Massachusetts-Bay,  in 
New-Eng-  \  land.  On  May  the  25/A  17 15.  |  Being  their  Anniversary  Day  for  Elec- 
tion of  I  His  Majesties  Council  for  that  Province.  |  By  Jeremiah  Shepard,  A.M. 
Pastor  I  of  the  Church  of  Lynn.  |  .  .  .  Boston,  Printed  by  John  Allen,  for  Nicholas 
Boone,  at  |  the  Sign  of  the  Bible  in  Cornhill.     17 15."     i2mo.     pp.  34, 

The  session  laws  were  also  printed,  and  extend  from  page  253  to  268  of  the  con- 
temporary issues.     The  laws  passed  in  each  session  were : 
May  Session. 

An  Act  against  Burglary. 

An  Act  for  altering  the  Time  for  holding  the  Court  of  General  Sessions  of  the 
Peace,  and  Inferiour  Court  of  Common  Pleas  within  the  County  of  Barnstable. 

An  Act  for  the  better  Preserving,  Increasing,  and  Securing  Naval  Stores;   Par- 
ticularly, Tar,  Turpentine,  and  Rozin,  within  this  Province. 
July  Session. 

An  Act  for  Building  and  Maintaining  a  Lighthouse  upon  the  Great  Brewster 
(called  Beacon  Island)  at  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour  of  Boston. 

An  Act  for  the  more  safe  keeping  the  Registry  of  Deeds  and  Conveyances  of 
Lands. 

An  Act  in  Addition  to  an  Act  for  Regulating  Fees. 

An  Act  in  Addition  to  an  Act  of  Limitation  for  Quieting  of  Possessions. 
November  Session. 

An  Act  in  Addition  to  an  Act  for  Erecting  of  a  Powder-house  in  Boston. 

An  Act  to  prevent  the  Oppression  of  Debtors. 

An  Act  for  preventing  damage  to  the   Housing  and  other  Estate,  within  the 
several  Towns  of  this  Province. 

An  Act  in  Addition  to  an  Act,  Intituled,  An  Act  against  Counterfeiting  the  Bills 

of  Credit  of  this  Province,  pass'd  in  the  Third  Year  of  Her  late  Majesty 

Queen  ANNE.  . 

'^  An 

1  Diary  of  Samuel  Sewall,  III,  69.  «  IbiJ.,  Ill,  70.  »  Ibid.,  Ill,  84. 


[XV] 

An  Act  in  further  Addition  to  the  Act  for  encouraging  the  Killing  of  Wolves, 
made  in  the  Fifth  Year  of  the  Reign  of  King  WILLIAM  and  Queen 
MARY. 

An  Act  for  Maintaining  and  Propagating  of  Religion. 

An  Act  for  reviving  and  further  continuing  of  an  Act,  Intituled,  An  Act  to 
enable  creditors  to  receive  their  just  Debts,  out  of  the  Effects  of  their  absent 
&  absconding  Debtors,  Made  &  Pass'd  by  the  Great  &  General  Court  or 
Assembly  at  their  Session  upon  the  26th  Day  of  May,  1708.  in  the  Seventh 
Year  of  the  Reign  of  Her  late  Majesty  Queen  ANNE. 

An  Act  for  the  Encouraging  the  raising  Hemp  within  this  Province. 

An  Act  for  holding  and  keeping  a  Superiour  Court  of  Judicature,  Court  of 
Assize  and  General  Goal  delivery,  within  and  for  the  County  of  Hampshire. 

An  Act  to  prevent  the  unnecessary  Journying  of  the  Representatives. 

An  Act  for  the  better  Regulating  of  Town  and  Proprietary  Meetings. 

An  Act  in  Addition  to  the  Act,  Entituled,  An  Act  for  the  Regulating  of  Town- 
ships, choice  of  Town-Officers,  and  setting  forth  their  Power,  Made  &  Passed 
in  the  Fourth  of  WILLIAM  and  MARY. 

An  Act  in  Addition  to  an  Act,  Entituled,  An  Act  for  the  Settlement  and  Dis- 
tribution of  the  Estates  of  Intestates,  Made  and  Passed  in  the  Fourth  Year 
of  the  Reign  of  King  WILLIAM  and  Queen  MARY. 

Although  none  of  these  session  laws  bears  the  name  of  the  printer,  they  were  all 
printed  by  Bartholomew  Green,  at  this  time  "Printer  to  His  Excellency  the  Govern- 
our  and  Council." 

WORTHINGTON    ChAUNCEY    FoRD. 

Boston,  January,  1902. 


[  xvii  ] 


[^Reyal  arms  used  in  the  session  laws  of  November,  17 IJ.^ 


"The  Bollon  News- Letter  "  for  the  week  from  Monday,  May  a3,  to  Monday, 
May  30,  17 1 5,  contains  a  list  of  the  Members  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
The  asterisk  indicates  a  new  member. 


Boflon, 

Roxbury, 

Dorchefter, 

Hingham, 

Brantree, 

Dedham, 

Medfield, 

Weymouth, 

Milton, 

Wrentham, 

Mendon, 

Brooklin, 

Woodftock, 

Needham, 

Salem,  < 

Ipfwich,        •< 

Newbury, 

Lynn, 

Marblehead, 

Andover, 

Beverley, 

Rowley, 

Salifbury, 

Haverhill, 

Glocefter, 

Topsfield, 

Boxford, 

Wenham, 

Amefbury, 

Bradford, 


Col.  Adam  Winthrop 
Capt.  Oliver  Noyes 
*Mr.  William  Payne 
.*Mr.  Eliftia  Cook 
Mr.  William  Denifon 
Mr.  Hopeftil  Clap 
Samuel  Thaxter  Efq  ; 
*Mr.  Jofeph  Allein  [Allen] 
*Mr.  John  Fuller 
*Capt.  John  Boydon 
Capt.  Stephen  French 
Mr.  Ephraim  Tucker 
Mr.  John  Guile  [Guild] 
Mr.  Samuel  Thaer  [Thayer] 


*Mr.  Samuel  Payne 

*Daniel  Epps  Efq  ; 
Capt.  Peter  Ofgood 
Mr.  John  Appleton 
Mr.  Nath.  Knowlton 
*Mr.  William  Moodey 
John  Burril  Efq  ;   Speaker 
Mr.  James  Cawley 
*Capt.  Benjamin  Stevens 
Mr.  Samuel  Balch 
*Mr.  Ezekiel  Northen 
*Capt.  Jofeph  Eaton 
*Capt.  John  White 
*John  Newman 
Mr.  Tobijah  Perkins 
Mr.  Jofeph  Hale 
*Capt.  Thomas  Fifke 
*Mr.  John  Foot 
*Mr.  John  Hutchins 


Charleftown, 

Watertown, 

Cambridge, 

Concord, 

Woburn, 

Reading, 

Sudbury, 

Marlborough, 

Newton, 

Maldon, 

Chelmsford, 

Billerica, 

Sherburn, 

Groton, 

Lancafter, 

Framingham, 

Medford, 

Lexington, 

Wefton, 

Stow, 

Springfield, 

Northampton, 

Hadley, 

Hatfield, 

Suffield, 

Weflfield, 

Enfield, 

Plymouth, 

Situate, 

Bridgewater, 

Marfhfield, 

Duxbury, 

Rochefter, 

Pembrook, 

Barnftable, 


*Capt.  Ch.  Chambers 
Mr.  Samuel  Sternes 
Mr.  Jonat  Remington 
*Mr.  William  Wilfon 
*Capt.  Jofiah  Converfe 
Mr.  Timothy  Wily 
*Mr.  Edmund  Rice 
Mr.  Thomas  Rice 
Mr.  John  Ward 
Mr.  John  Greenland 
Mr.  Stephen  Pierce 
Lieut.  John  Sternes 
*Capt.  Jofeph  Morfe 
*Mr.  Thomas  Tarbal 
*Mr.  John  Houghton 
Maj.  Jos  Buckminfter 
*Capt.  Peter  Tufts 
*Mr.  Francis  Bowman 
Capt.  Francis  Fulham 
*Mr.  John  Buttrick 
*Luke  Hitchcock  Efq ; 
Jofeph  Parfons  Efq ; 
Mr.  Daniel  Marfh 
Mr.  John  Partridge 
*Mr.  Atherton  Mather 
Mr.  John  Afhley. 


James  Warren  Efq ; 
Mr.  Samuel  Clap 
*Mr.  Edward  Fobes 
Capt.  Ifaac  Little 
Seth  Arnold  Efq ; 
*Mr.  John  Randel 
Capt.  Thomas  Barker 
*Mr.  Jofeph  Lothrop 

Eaflham 


[  xviii  ] 


Eaftham, 

Sandwich, 

Yarmouth, 

Harwich, 

Truro, 

Middleborow 

Briftol, 

Taunton, 

Dartmouth, 

Rehoboth, 

Little  Comp, 

Swanzey, 


*Mr.  Samuel  Mayo 
*Mr.  John  Chipman 
*Mr.  Jofeph  Hall 
*Mr.  Gerfliom  Hall 
*Mr.  Conflant  Freeman 
*Mr.  John  Bennet 
[Capt.]  Simon  Davis  Efq; 
*Capt.  Henry  Hodges 
Mr.  Jonathan  Delano 
Mr.  Mofes  Read 
Capt.  W.  Southworth 
Mr.  John  Rogers 


Tiverton, 

Attleborough, 

Dighton, 

Norton, 

York, 

Kittery, 

Wells, 

Berwick, 

Edgar-Town, 

Tifbury, 

Chilmark, 

Nantucket, 


*Mr.  William  Manchefter 
*Mr.  David  Freeman 
Mr.  Benjamin  Jones 
*George  Leonard,  Efq ; 
*Abraham  Prebble  Efq ; 
*Mr.  Jofeph  Hammond 


*Mr.  Elifha  Plaifted 
Major  Benj.  Skiife 


James  Coffin  Efq ; 


JOURNAL 


Of  the  Houfe  of 


Reprefentatives 


Anno  Regni  Regis  GEORGIInunc  Magnas  Britanniae,  ^C.  Primo. 


JOURNAL 


Of  the  Houfe  of 


Reprefentatives. 


At  a  Great  and  General  Court  or  Affembly  of  His  Majefty's  Province  of 
the  Maffachufetts-Bay  in  J^etD'CnSlatltlt  begun  &  held  at  35ofiOn» 
upon  Wednefday  the  25th  Day  of  ;^ap>  ^tttlO  3iOmim»  i  7  i  5- 

SAmuel  Sewally  John  Phillips,  and  Jqfeph  Lynde  Efqrs.  came  down  from  the 
Council  Board,  and  Acquainted  the  Houfe  that  they  were  Appointed  and 
Authorized  by  His  Excellency  the  Governour,  That  this  Houfe  Ihould 
take  the  Oaths,  Make  and  Subfcribe  the  Declaration,  Take  and  Subfcribe 
the  Oath  of  Abjuration  (as  by  the  Royal  Charter  of  this  Province  is  Direfted)  before 
them,  which  was  accordingly  done  by  the  Members  prefent,  and  They  withdrew. 
The  Houfe  Proceeded  to  write  their  Votes  for  a  Speaker,  which  being  Col- 
ledted,  and  Examined,  it  was  found  that  John  Burrill  Efq  ;  was  chofen  by  a  ma- 
jor part  of  the  Houfe,  and  he  was  accordingly  Conduced  to  the  Chair. 

The  Houfe  Proceeded  to  write  their  Votes  for  a  Clerk,  which  being  Colle6led 
and  Examined,  it  appear'd  that  Mr.  John  White  was  chofen  by  a  major  part  of 
the  Houfe,  who  was  accordingly  fent  for  to  the  Houfe. 

I^ofl  iHeritrtem. 

A  Meflage  fent  up  to  the  Council  Board,  by  Capt.  Davis,  and  Mr.  Cawley,  to 
report  to  His  Excellency  the  Choice  the  Houfe  had  made  of  a  Speaker. 

Who  Returned,  That  His  Excellency  was  not  in  Council,  but  by  Sicknefs  Con- 
fin'd  at  home. 

Major  Skeffe,  and  Mr.  Chipman,  were  fent  to  Wait  on  His  Excellency  at  His 
Houfe  at  Roxbury,   to   Report  to   His  Excellency,   the  Choice  of  the  Speaker. 

Who  Returned,  That  His  Excellency  faid,  the  Choice  is  very  acceptable  to  him. 

A  Meflage  fent  up  to  the  Board,  by  Mr.  Samuel  Clap,  and  Capt.  Davis,  That 
the  Houfe  was  now  ready  to  proceed  to  the  choice  of  Councellors. 

Who  Return'd,  That  the  Board  were  ready  to  Proceed,  and  Join  with  the  Houfe 
in  the  Choice. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Epps,  Capt.  Noyes,  Col.  Winthrop,  Col.  Thaxter,  and  Mr. 
Denifon,  be  a  Committee  to  carry  up  the  Votes  of  this  Houfe  for  Councellors, 
and  aflift  in  Sorting  and  Numbering  them,  together  with  the  Votes  of  the  Board, 
and  Report  to  the  Houfe,  the  feveral  Ele6lions  that  fhall  be  made. 

The  faid  Committee  carried  up  the  Votes  of  the  Houfe,  for  Councellors  in  the 
late  Colony  of  the  Majfachujetts-Bay  until  Eighteen  were  chofen  by  a  major 
part  of  the  Voters. 

Then  for  the  late  Colony  of  New-Plymouth,  until  Four  were  chofen,  as  aforefaid. 

Then  for  the  late  Province  of  Maine,  until  Three  were  chofen,  as  aforefaid. 

A  Then 


Then  for  the  Territory  between  Sagadehoc  and  Nova  Scotia,  until  One  was 
chofen,   as  aforefaid. 

And  laftly,  for  Perfons  dwelling  in  any  Part  of  the  Province,  until  Two  were 
chofen,  as  aforefaid. 

And  the  faid  Committee  Reported  the  choice  to  be  as  follows,  viz. 

Of  the  Inhabitants  or  Proprietors  of  Lands  in  the  Territory  formerly  called 
the  Majfachufetts-Bay. 

The   Hon.   William  Tailer  Efq ;  Wait  Winthrop  Efq  ; 

Eli/ha  Cooke  Efq  ;  Eli/ha  Hutchinfon  Efq  ; 

Samuel  Sewall  Efq  ;  John  Apfleton  Efq  ; 

John  Higginfon  Efq ;  Andrew  Belcher  Efq  ; 

Edward  Bromfield  Efq  ;  Nathaniel  Norden  Efq  ; 

Benjamin  Lynde  Efq ;  John  Clark  Efq  ; 

Addington  Davenport  Efq ;  1'homas  Hutchinjon  Efq  ; 

Samuel  Brown  Efq ;  John  Pinchon  Efq  ; 

1'homas  Oliver  Efq  ;  Thomas  Fitch  Efq  ; 

Of  the  Inhabitants  or  Proprietors  of  Lands  within  the  Territory  formerly 
called  New-Plymouth,  viz. 

» 

Nathaniel  Paine  Efq  ;  Ifaac  Winjlow  Efq  ; 

John  Cujhing  Efq ;  John  Otis  Efq  ; 

Of  the  Inhabitants  or  Proprietors  of  Lands  within  the  Territory  formerly  called 
the  Province  oi  Maine,  viz. 

Eliakim  Hutchinjon  Efq  ;  Ichaboa  Plaifted  Efq ; 

John  Wheelwright  Efq  ; 

Of  the  Inhabitants  or  Proprietors  of  Lands  lying  within  the  Territory  between 
Sagadehoc  and  Nova  Scotia,  viz. 

Jofeph  Lynde  Efq  ; 

Of  the  Inhabitants  or  Proprietors  ot  Lands  in  any  Part  of  the  Province. 

Nathaniel  Byfield  Efq  ;  Edmund  ^injey  Efq ; 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


JoSjis  26  Jttaii  171 5, 

/^Rdered,  That  Col  Thaxter,  Col.  Winthrop,  Capt.  Noyes,  Capt.  OJgood,  and 
^^  Capt.  Davis,  Wait  on  His  Excellency  the  Governour,  with  the  above- written 
Lift  of  the  Councellors,  or  Afliftants,  newly  chofen  for  the  Year  enfuing,  for  His 
Excellency's  Approbation  of  the  Perfons,  therein  Named,  to  be  given  in  Writing 
under  his  Hand. 

And  inquire  of  His  Excellency's  Health. 

The  Houfe  Proceeded  to  Examine  the  Returns  of  the  Precepts,  made  from  the 
feveral  Towns,  of  the  choice  of  their  Reprefentatives. 

Which  being  paiTed  through. 

The  ufual  Orders  of  the  Houfe  were  Read  :  And 

Ordered,  To  be  the  Orders,  of  the  Houfe  during  the  Seffions  thereof. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  John  Sternes,  Mr.  Reed,  and  Capt.  Arnold,  be  Monitors  of 
the  Houfe  to  take  care  that  the  Orders  thereof  are  duely  obferved. 

Ordered, 


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Ordered,  That  Mr.  Speaker,  Mr.  Denifon,  and  Mr.  Cawley,  Give  the  Thanks  of 
this  Houfe  to  the  Reverend  Mr.  Jeremiah  Shepard  for  the  Sermon  Preach'd  at  their 
Defire,  before  this  Court  in  a  Publick  Aflembly  Yefterday,  being  the  Anniverfarjr 
Day  of  Eledion  of  Councellors :  And  that  they  Defire  him  to  give  a  Copy  thereof 
to  be  Printed. 

An  Accompt  of  William  Paine  Joyner,  of  the  charge  of  Wainfcotting,  one  half 
of  the  Chamber  of  the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives,  and  making  of  Seats  therein, 
amounting  to  the  Sum  of  40/.  16  J.  8^.  Prefented  to  the  Houfe  for  Allowance. 
Read  and 
Refolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Forty  Pounds  Sixteen  Shillings  and  Eight  Pence  be 
Allowed  and  Paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury,  to  William  Paine,  the  Accomptant 
to  Difcharge  his  Accompt. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
An  Accompt  of  Edward  Pell  Painter,  for  Painting  half  of  the  Reprefentatives 
Chamber,  amounting  to  the  Sum  of  5/.  &  2  j.  ofFer'd  to  the  Houfe  for  Payment. 
Read  and 
Re/olved,  That  the  Sum  of  Five  Pounds  and  'Two  Shillings,  be  Allowed  &  Paid 
out  of  the    Publick   Treafury  to   Edward  Pell,  the  Accomptant   to   Difcharge  his 
Accompt. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
The  Lift  of  Councellors  fent  to  His  Excellency  the  Governour  this  Morning  : 
was  Return'd  to  the  Houfe  again,  by  the  Members  who  carried  it.  His  Excellency 
having  Entred  thereon  as  follows  :  viz, 

I  Confent  to  this  Eledion  of  Councellors,  except  Nathaniel  Byfield  Efq ; 

Given  under  My  Hand,  J.  DUD  LET. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


Dencris  27  f^Axx  171 5* 

/^Rdered,  That  Capt.  Noyes,  Col.  Thaxter,  Mr.  Parjons,  Mr.  Denifon,  and  Capt. 
^-^  Fullam,  be  a  Committee  for  Petitions  to  Examine  the  Matters  and  Allegations 
thereof,  and  report  the  fame  with  their  Opinion  thereon  to  the   Houfe. 

A  Petition  of  John  Brigham,  Hopejiill  Brown,  and  Twenty-nine  others,  Prefented 
to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  Praying,  That  the  Land  lying  between  the  Towns  of 
Marlborough,  Lancajier,  Worcejler  and  Hajfanameefit,  may  be  granted  to  them,  and 
made  a  Townlhip. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petition  be  Rejefted  all  the  Names  affixed  thereto,  except  one 
being  written  by  the  fame  hand. 

A  Petition  of  Francis  Fullam  and  Daniel  Livermore,  both  of  Wejlon,  Prefented  to 
the  Houfe  and  Read,  Praying  this  Court  to  give  them  leave  to  Purchafe  a  piece  of 
Land,  containing  about  Six  Hundred  Acres,  Lying  on  the  Eafterly  fide  of  the  Town 
of  Oxford,  of  the  Indian  Owner  thereof,  called  Mallalawing  David,  for  Reafons 
therein  expreffed. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Petition  be  committed  to  the  Committee  for  Petitions. 

Ordered,  That  Capt.  Noyes,  Mr.  Cooke,  and  Col.  Thaxter,  be  a  Committee  to  pre- 
pare the  Draught  of  a  Vote,  to  bring  forward,  the  Running  of  the  Line  between  this 
Province  and  the  Colony  of  Rhode-IJland,  purfuant  to  the  Agreement  of  the  Com- 
miflioners  of  the  Two  Governments  for  that  end. 

A  Petition  of  John  Small-piece  of  Bojion,  who  was  very  much  wounded,  by  a 
Blaft  of  Gunpowder,  in  the  Burning  of  the  Impoft-Office,  the  laft  Winter,  when 
he  was  attempting  to  fave  what  he  could  therein ;  Prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read, 
Praying  fome  Allowance  towards  his  Cure  and  Subftftence. 

In  anfwer  to  the  faid  Petition.  Rejolved, 


[4] 

'     Refohed,  That  the  Sum  of   Twenty  Pounds  be   Allowed    and    Paid  out  of  the 
Publick  Treafury  to  ^ohn  Small-piece  the  Petitioner,  towards  his  Relief. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Andrew  Belcher  and  Addington  Davenport  Efqrs.  brought  down  a  Letter  from  His 
Excellency  the  Governour,  dated  yefterday  at  Roxbury,  and  direfted  to  the  Gentle- 
men of  the  Council  and  Reprefentatives :  Intimating  that  he  is  under  fuch  Bodily 
Illnefs,  that  he  is  unable  at  prefent  to  Attend  the  Court,  but  would  have  the  Court 
Proceed  in  the  Bufinefs  that  lies  before  them. 

And  a  Letter  from  Mr.  Agent  Dummer,  dated  at  Whitehall,  Decemb.  4th  laft, 
Directed  to   Mr.  Secretary  Addington,  for  the  General  Affembly  :   Which  were  Read. 

Mr.  Edward  Hutchin/on,  having  Reprefented  to  this  Houfe,  That  he  with  Mr. 
John  Watts,  have  now  more  than  Ten  Families,  gone  and  ready  to  go,  to  Arowjick 
Ifland,  to  make  a  Settlement  there. 

Voted,  That  His  Excellency  the  Governour  be  requefted,  now  to  order  a  Serjeant 
with  Nineteen  Sentinels,  from  Cajco  Fort,  to  Defend  and  Affift  their  Settlement, 
agreeable  to  the  Vote  of  this  Court  in  October  laft:  The  faid  Undertakers  having 
likewife  reprefented  that  convenient  Barracks  will  be  ready  for  their  reception,  by  the 
time  they  can  remove  thither. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Report  of  the  Committee,  appointed  by  this  Court,  the  20th  of  laft  OSlober, 
to  Run  the  Line,  between  the  Town  of  Groton,  and  the  Plantation  of  Najhoba,  offer'd 
to  the  Houfe,  and  was  Read  accordingly. 

Refolved,   That  the  Report  be  Accepted. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


^abbati  28  tik  ittaii  171 5. 

/'^Apt.  Noyes  from  the  Committee  for  Petitions,  made  Report  to  the  Houfe  on 
^^  the  Petition  of  Francis  Fullam,  and  Daniel  Livermore,  the  prayer  whereof  was 
entred  yefterday :  That  the  Committee  were  of  Opinion  that  the  prayer  of  the  Peti- 
tion be  granted. 

Refolved,  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petitioners  be  granted ;  Provided  the  Land  be 
no  Part  of  Land  appropriated  by  the  Government,  and  the  Quantity  exceeds  not 
Seven  Hundred  Acres.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Ordered,  That  Col.  Adam  Winthrop,  Mr.  William  Paine,  Mr.  Elijha  Cooke,  Mr. 
Abraham  Preble,  Mr.  James  Cawley,  and  Luke  Hitchcock  Efq ;  be  a  Committee  to 
joyn  with  fuch  as  the  Honourable  Board  fliall  Nominate,  to  Prepare  the  Draught 
of  a  humble  Addrefs  and  Memorial  to  His  Majefty,  humbly  to  Reprefent,  and  lay 
before  His  Majefty,  the  prefent  State  of  this  Province. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Report  of  the  Committee  for  Setling  of  the  Eaftern  Parts  of  this  Province : 
Offered  to  the  Houfe,  and  Read. 

A  Petition  of  Jojeph  Morje  Reprefentative  of  the  Town  of  Sherhourn,  Prefented 
to  the  Houfe,  and  Read;  Praying  that  a  Plat  of  Four  Thoufand  Acres  of  Land, 
(there-with  exhibited)  laid  out  and  protrafted  by  "Thomas  White  Surveyor,  purfuant 
to  a  Grant  of  this  Court,  may  be  confirmed  to  the  faid  Town. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board  by  John  Wheelwright,  and  John  Clark  Efqrs. 
Defiring  the  Houfe  to  have  a  further  confideration  of  the  Memorial  of  the  Council 
that  manag'd  the  Government,  after  the  Death  of  Lieut.  Governour  Stoughton,  until 
the  Arrival  of  His  Excellency  our  prefent  Governour. 

The  faid  Memorial  purporting  as  entred  P^eb.  20th  17 13.         Read. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  Monday  next  Three  a  Clock  afternoon. 


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luiiiie  30  t>ie  ittaii  171 5. 

A  Petition  of  Richard  Coomes  and  Hephzibah  his  Wife  Daughter  of  Jofeph  Newel, 
late  of  Roxbury,  deceas'd,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read;  Praying  Relief  from 
great  wrong  they  fufFer,  by  the  Heirs  of  Florence  Maccarty  late  of  Bojlon,  deceas'd, 
injurioufly  with-holding  from  them  Lands  that  were  her  Father's,  lying  in  Roxbury 
aforefaid ;  and  for  which  they  are  without  remedy  in  the  Law. 

Ordered,  That  a  hearing  be  granted  on  this  Petition,  before  this  Court,  on 
Friday  next  at  Ten  a  Clock  in  the  forenoon :  And  that  the  Petitioners  ferve  the 
adverfe  Party  with  a  Copy  of  the  Petition,  and  a  Notification,  That  they  may  be 
heard,  if  they  have  any  thing  to  Alledge  why  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  fhould  not 
be  Granted.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Daniel  MarJJi  Reprefentative  of  the  Town  of  Hadley,  prefented  to 
the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying.  That  a  Trad  of  Land  of  Four  Miles  Square  adjoyning 
to  the  faid  Town  may  be  annexed,  and  made  part  thereof,  Agreeable  to  a  Grant  of 
this  Court,  formerly  made,  That  the  faid  Quantity  fhould  be  laid  to  them. 

And  a  Petition  of  Ebenezer  Pumry  and  Nineteen  others  Inhabitants  of  the  faid 
Town,  and  the  Town  of  Northampton ;  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read;  Praying, 
That  the  faid  Lands,  with  others  near  adjoining  may  be  Granted  to  them,  to  Settle 
and  Form  a  Townfhip  there. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Petitions  be  referr'd  to  further  Confideration,  at  the 
Seffion  of  this  Court  in  the  next  Autumn. 

And  that  in  the  mean  time  the  Town  of  Hadley  lay  out  their  Grant  of  Four 
Miles  Square,  made  to  them  by  the  General  Court  in  May  1683.  by  a  fkilful  Sur- 
veyor, under  Oath,  either  of  the  South-weft,  or  North-eaft  End  of  the  faid  Town. 
That  the  Province  Land  lying  between  the  faid  Town,  and  the  Town  of  Spring- 
field, may  not  be  cut  in  pieces,  and  made  unfit  for  future  Grants  and  Settlements, 
and  return  a  Plat  thereof  to  this  Court  for  Confirmation. 

Whereas  a  great  Number  of  Guns  were  fired  yefterday,  being  the  Lords  Day,  at 
Ca/lle  fVilliam,  for  which  we  are  not  fenfible  of  any  neceflary  occafion. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Speaker  be  defired  to  wait  on  His  Excellency  the  Governour, 
and  inquire.  Upon  what  occafion,  and  by  whofe  order  they  were  fired ;  and  defire  that 
for  the  future  Orders  may  be  given.  That  no  Guns  may  be  fired  there  on  the  Lord's 
Day,  but  in  cafes  of  neceflity. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


illartts  31  lite  ittaii  1715. 

A  Petition  of  Samuel  Partridge  Efq;  Praying  as  entred  the  Third  day  of  Novemb. 
"*•  •^    laft.  Read  again  and  Committed. 

Sundry  Accompts  of  charge  arifing  for  the  furnilhing  of  Major  ^ohn  Stoddard, 
and  the  Reverend  Mr.  John  fVilliams,  and  their  Attendants,  to  proceed  on  their 
journey  to  Canada,  Anno  17 13.  being  fent  by  this  Court  to  obtain  the  Englifli 
Captives  there. 

And  Accompt  of  charge  after  their  Return,  and  charge  upon  the  Captives 
rcturn'd,  Prefented  to  the  Houfe  for  Allowance  and  Payment:  Read  and  committed 
to  the  Committee  for  Petitions. 

The  following  Report  offered  to  the  Houfe,  viz.  We  under-written,  having 
been  appointed  by  the  Honourable  General  AfTembly  of  this  Province  the  loM  day 
of  June,  Anno  17 14.  To  view  a  Tra6t  of  Land  adjoyning  to  Brookfield  on  the  South, 
and  to  Brimfield  on  the  Eaft,  extending  from  Brookfield  South-weft  Corner  Eaftward, 
Three  Miles,  in  order  to  its  being  added  to  the  Town  of  Brimfield,  whofe  Bounds 
are   ftraitned    on   the    South,    by   the    Partition    Line   of  this    Province,    and    the 

B  Colony 


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Colony  of  ConneEticut,  and  make  a  Report  thereof.  Having  ftriftly  Meafured  faid 
Brimfield  Weft  Line,  which  we  find  to  be  Seven  Miles  &  Sixteen  Perch,  as  it  Bounds 
on  Springfield^  tho'  not  fo  much  Square  off  from  the  faid  Partition  Line ;  and  alfo 
the  Diftance  between  Springfield,  and  the  South- weft  Corner  of  Brimfield,  which  we 
find  to  be  Eight  Miles  one  Quarter,  and  Twenty-two  Perch,  and  no  more  ;  which 
faid  Tra6t  is  fiiort  of  the  Contents  of  Eight  Miles  Square,  and  withal  very  Moun- 
tainous, and  uncapable  to  entertain  a  fuitable  Number  of  Families,  without  an 
addition  at  the  Eaft  End:  Are  therefore  humbly  of  Opinion,  That  unlefs  Three 
Miles  be  added,  to  the  faid  Town  oi Brimfield,  as  defcribed  in  the  Subfequent  Map; 
It  will  not  be  inviting  nor  capable  to  entertain  a  Suitable  Number  of  Families, 
according  to  the  Diredtion  of  the  Court,  relating  to  the  Settlement  thereof;  the  faid 
Eaftermofl  End  only  being  capable  to  entertain  Inhabitants  to  Settle  in  a  defenfible 
manner.  April  21.  1715.  Signed 

Jqfeph  Parjons 
(only  not  prefent  at  the  Meafuring) 
John  Partridge 
John  Chandler 
Read  and  Accepted. 

And  Ordered,  That  the  Report  be  accepted;  And  all  the  Land  between  the 
Province  Line,  and  the  South  Line  of  Brookfield,  for  the  Space  of  Three  Miles  from 
the  Eaft  End  of  the  Town  of  Brimfield,  be  Granted  and  Added  to  the  faid  Town  of 
Brimfield.  Provided,  It  Intrench  not  upon  the  Four  Miles  Square,  ordered  to  be 
Surveyed  for  Wait-ftill  Winthrop  Efq  ;  nor  upon  any  other  former  Grant. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Cooke,  Mr.  Remington  and  Mr.  IVilliam  Paine,  be  a  Committee 
to  confider  what  A<5bs  are  Expired,  or  near  Expiring,  that  fliould  be  Revived  or 
Continued ;  and  prepare  a  Bill  or  Bills  for  the  fame ;  And  to  prepare  and  offer  fuch 
other  Bills,  as  they  apprehend  proper  now  to  be  Enadted. 

Voted,  That  the  right  of  this    Province  in  and  to  the  River  commonly  called 
Pi/cataqua  River,  be  Afferted  and  Maintained. 
And  in  order  there-unto  : 

That  a  Breaft-work  for  Six  Guns  be  Eredled  in  fome  convenient  place,  in  the 
Town  of  Kittery,  for  the  Defence  of  the  River. 

That  Six  Guns  with  Shot  and  Carriages  be  Ordered  to  the  Town  of  Kittery,  upon 
their  Erefting  a  Breaft-work,  &  Platform,  &  obliging  themfelves  to  Maintain  the 
fame. 

That  His  Excellency  be  defired  to  give  his  Orders  accordingly. 

That  it  is  for  His  Majefty's  Service,  That  there  be  a  Naval  Office  kept  in  the 
Port  of  Kittery,  to  avoid  the  Unreafonable  Duties  or  Impofitions  Exaded  from  the 
Inhabitants  of  this  Province,  pafling  in  and  out  faid  River,  by  the  Naval  Officer  of 
the  Government  of  New-Hamp/hire. 

That  all  Ships  or  other  Veflels  that  Load  or  Unload  at  the  Port  of  Kittery,  be 
obliged  to  enter,  and  clear  with  the  Naval  Officer  there,  and  Pay  the  Duties  of  Im- 
port and  Powder  Money  according  to  Law. 

That  all  the  Harbours  in  Kittery  and  Berwick,  fhall  belong  to  the  Port  of  Kittery. 
Sent  up   for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Twenty-four  Inhabitants  of  that  Part  of  Hingham,  called  Conihaffet, 
prelented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying.  That  they  may  be  fet  off",  and  made  a 
Separate  or  Diftindt  Precinft,  as  to  the  Publick  Worftiip  of  God;  for  Reafons 
therein  mentioned. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners  ferve  the  Town  of  Hingham  with  a  Copy  of  this 
Petition,  and  that  they  be  heard  before  this  Court,  on  the  Eighth  Day  of  June  next, 
if  they  have  any  thing  to  offer  why  the  prayer  thereof  fliould  not  be  granted. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 


[7] 

Mr.  Treafurer  Allen  Attended  the  Houfe  with  his  Accompts  of  the  Treafury, 
which  were  Read,  and  he  withdrew. 

Order edy  That  Mr.    Cooke,  Mr.  William  Paine,  Capt.  Chambers,  Mr.  Remington, 
and    Mr.    Samuel   Clap,   be   a  Committee  to    Examine  and    Audit    the    Treafurers 
Accompts,  and  infpeft  the  Vouchers  of  the  feveral    Payments  : 
And  make  Report  to  the  Houfe. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  27th  Currant,  for  fending  Twenty  Men  from 
Cqfco  Fort  to  Arowfick  Ifland,  fent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.  In 
Council  May  31  17 15.  Read  and  Concurr'd,  and  that  His  Excellency  be  Defired, 
to  add  Ten  Men  more  to  the  Garrifon  of  Cajco,  for  the  prefent  Exigence,  and  until 
further  Order. 

Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  28th  Currant,  for  a  humbly  Addrefs  to  His 
Majefly,  fent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there  May  31.  1715.  In  Council, 
Read  and  Concurr'd ;  And  that  the  Settlement  of  the  Eaftern  Parts,  and  the  Affair 
of  Cape  Breton,  now  in  the  hands  of  the  French,  be  particularly  confidered,  in  the  faid 
Addrefs  ;  and  Elijha  Hutchinjon,  Samuel  Sewall,  John  Higgin/on,  and  Addington  Daven- 
tort  Efqrs.  are  added  to  the  Committee. 

Read  and  Concurr'd  ;  and  Sent  up  again. 

A  Letter  from  Mr.  Agent  Bummer,  to  Mr.  Secretary  Addington,  for  the  General 
Affembly,  Dated  yf/>r/7  5th  1715.     Read. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


ittercurix  i  t>ie  ^unit  171 5. 

/^Apt.  Noyes  from  the  Committee    for    Petitions,   made   Report  on   the  feveral 

^-^    Accompts  of  charge  in  the  Out-fet  of  Major  Stoddard,  and  Mr.  Williams  for 

Canada,  &c.  which  was  accepted  by  the  Houfe,  and  the  following  Accompts  allowed 

to  be  paid,  viz. 

To  Dr.  Robert  Ellis  his  Accompt  of  Medicines  &  Attendance,  ) 

on  Sick  Captives,  i^c  J 

To  Mr.  'Thomas  Tarbol  his  Accompt  of  Charge  5     17     00 

To  Jofeph  Kellog  as  per  Accompt  3      15     00 

To  Martin  Kellog  as  per  Accompt  29     18     04 

To  Capt.  Thomas  Baker,  Accompt  of  Charge  in  his  ficknefs  12     04     00 

To  the  Honourable  Samuel  Partridge  Efq  :   for  his  extraordinary  ] 

.  >•      2  c     00     00 

Service  for  Six  Years  in  the  late  War  J         ^ 

To  Col.  Samuel  Partridges  Accompt.  N'.  1.  22      12     10 

To  Col  Samuel  Partridges  Accompt.  N°.  2.  21     01     05 


/.  130     03     07 
Re/olved,  That  the  Sum  of  One  Hundred  and  Thirty  Pounds,  Three  Shillings,  and 
Seven  Pence,   be  Allowed,  and    paid  out  of  the   Publick  Treafury,    to   the  feveral 
Perfons  named  in   the  above  Accompts,  according  to   the  Sums  annexed  to  their 
Names,  for  the  Difcharging  of  the  faid  Accompts. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
A  Petition  of  John  and  Matthew  Whipple  in  behalf  of  the  new  Precin6t  in 
Ip/wich,   prefented  to  the   Houfe  and   Read,  praying.  That  feveral   other  Families 
near  to  them  in  the  faid  Town,  may  be  added  to  the  faid  Precinft. 

And  a  Petition  of  Sundry  Perfons,  Praying  that  they  may  be  annexed,  and  laid 
to  the  faid  Precin6t     Read,  and  Ordered, 


[8] 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners  ferve  the  Town  of  Ipfwich  with  a  Copy  of  both 
thefe  Petitions,  who  may  be  heard  before  this  Court,  if  they  have  any  thing  to  objed 
againft  the  prayers  thereof,  on  the  Tenth  Day  of  this  Month,  if  the  Court  continues 
Sitting  so  long,  otherwife  on  the  firfl  Day  of  the  next  SelTion. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Jofeph  Pratt  and  Fifty-nine  others.  Inhabitants  of  the  Eafterly 
Part  of  Bridgewater,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying,  That  they  may  be  fet 
oiF,  and  made  a  Separate  Precindt,  as  to  the  Maintenance  of  the  Gofpel  Miniftry. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners  ferve  the  Town  of  Bridgewater,  with  a  Copy  of 
this  Petition,  and  that  a  Hearing  be  granted  on  the  firfl  Thurfday,  of  the  next 
Seflion  of  this  Court,  if  they  have  any  thing  to  Alledge,  why  the  prayer  thereof 
fhould  not  be  granted. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  new  Piatt  of  the  Grant  of  the  Townfhip  of  Sutton,  Laid  before  the  Houfe  for 
Allowance  and  Confirmation  ;   which  being  Infpedted. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Piatt  be  Rejefted,  as  not  being  agreeable  to  the  Grant  of 
this  Court. 

Ordered,  That  all  Platts  of  Land  that  fhall  be  offered  to  this  Court  for  Confirma- 
tion, be  henceforward  fuch,  as  the  Surveyor  and  thofe  who  carryed  the  Chain,  in 
Meafuring  the  Land  are  under  Oath,  to  a  faithful  and  impartial  performance  of  thofe 
Services. 

Some  of  the  Members  Informed  the  Houfe  that  Mr.  John  Randall,  who  is 
return'd  Reprefentative  of  the  Town  of  Rochejier,  is  a  Profane  perfon,  and  flands 
Convi6l  of  Scandalous  Immorality's. 

Mr.  Randall  had  Opportunity  given  him,  to  make  his  Defence.  But  he  exprefs'd 
himfelf  unconcern'd  to  clear  his  Reputation. 

Whereupon  he  was  Ordered  to  withdraw. 

The  Queflion  being  put,  Whether  the  Houfe  efteem  the  faid  Mr.  Randall  to  be  a 
perfon  worthy  to  Sit  as  a  Member  of  this  Houfe? 
It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

Ordered,   That  the  faid  Mr.  John  Randall  be  Expell'd  this  Houfe. 

The  faid  Mr.  Randall  was  again  call'd  into  the  Houfe. 

And  Mr.  Speaker  acquainted  him  with  the  Vote,  the  Houfe  had  pafs'd.  And 
that  he  was  Expell'd  the  Houfe.     Whereupon  he  immediately  Departed  the  Houfe. 

Ordered,  That  a  Precept  be  fent  to  the  Town  of  Rochejier,  to  Ele(5l  and  Send  a 
Reprefentative  to  Attend  His  Majefly's  Service  in  this  Houfe,  on  the  loth  Currant, 
and  fo  de  die  in  diem,  during  the  Seflions  thereof,  in  the  room  of  the  faid  Mr. 
Randall.  And  that  they  be  Reprimanded  for  their  abufing  their  Privilege,  in  Eledt- 
ing  and  Sending  a  perfon  of  fuch  an  Ignominious  Character  to  Reprefent  them. 

A  Memorial  of  some  of  the  Minifters  of  the  Gofpel  in  this  Province,  Moving 
this  Court  to  Countenance,  and  Affift  the  Calling  of  a  Synod  of  the  faid  Churches, 
by  their  Paftors  and  Delegates.     Signed,  ^^ofeph  <!5em(ft 

§'ofjn  2Danfortf) 
S^cnjamin  l©atiftaort|) 

25ett)aniin  Colman 
l^eter  €f)act)^t. 

Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.  In  Council  May  31.  17 15. 
Read  and  Voted,  that  the  Synod  and  Affembly  above-mentioned,  is  agreeable  to 
them,  and  the  Reverend  Miniflers,  are  Defired  to  take  their  own  time  for  the  faid 
Affembly,  and  earneflly  wifh  the  Iffue  thereof  may  be  a  happy  Reformation,  in  all 
the  Articles  of  a  Chriflian  Life  and  Manners  amongft  His  Majefly's  good  Subjects 
of  this  Province.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read. 


[9] 

A  Petition  of  Joftph  Brown  &  Forty-two  Others,  Inhabitants  of  the  Eaft  and 
Weft  Precindb  in  the  Town  o{ Newbury,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read;  praying 
that  they  may  be  fet  off,  and  made  a  Separate  Precindt  for  the  Maintenance  of  the 
Publick  Worfhip  of  God,  which  the  Eaftern  Precindt  have  confented  to,  but  as  yet 
the  Weftern  have  not. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners  ferve  the  Weftern  Precin<ft,  with  a  Copy  of  this 
Petition,  and  Notifie  them  that  they  may  be  heard,  before  this  Court  on  Friday  the 
Tenth  Currant,  if  they  have  ought  to  alledge  why  the  prayer  thereof  fhould  not  be 
granted.     Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£i  in  Addition  to  an  ASi  for  Ereiling  of  a  Powder-houje  in 
Bojlon.     Read  a  firft  time. 

Ordered,  That  a  Precept  be  fent  to  the  Town  of  Plymouth,  to  Eledt  &  Send  a 
Reprefentative,  in  the  room  of  fames  Warren  Efq ;  deceafed,  to  appear  at  this  Houfe 
the  \oth  day  of  fune  Currant,  at  Nine  a  Clock. 

A  Petition  oi  fames  Cawley  Reprefentative  of  the  Town  oi  Marblehead,  prefented 
to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying  that  the  faid  Town  may  be  freed  from  the  Obliga- 
tion to  Maintain  a  Gunner  at  the  Fort,  in  the  faid  Town,  in  time  of  Peace,  which 
they  are  injoyned  to  do  by  an  Order  of  this  Court  pafs'd  in  O^ober  1708.  for  reafons 
therein  fet  forth. 

Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  granted.     Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  fo/eph  Hammond,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying  that 
he  may  be  allowed  a  proper  Conlideration,  for  his  Time  and  Expences  Ten  Dayes 
in  aflifting  with  Others  appointed  by  this  Court,  in  April  17 14,  to  Difcover  and 
Determine  a  proper  place  for  Setling  a  Town  at  or  near  Cafco  Bay.         Committed. 

The  Report  of  the  Committee  for  Setling  the  Eajlern  Parts,  Read  again  and 
committed  to  the  Committee  for  Petitions,  to  Report  their  Opinion  what  is  proper 
to  be  done  thereon. 

A  Petition  of  Samuel  Emery,  and  Samuel  Moodey  Minifters  of  the  Towns  of  fVells 
and  Tork,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  Moving,  That  the  Fort  at  Winter 
Harbour,  may  be  fupplyed  with  a  Chaplain.         Committed. 

A  Petition  of  Thomas  Tarboll,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying  con- 
fideration  and  allowance  for  his  Time  and  Expences  in  going  to  Canada,  with  Major 
Stoddard  &  Mr.  Williams,  Anno  17 13.  to  recover  the  Captives.     Committed 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  ASi  in  Addition  to  the  Alt  for  EreSftng  of  a  Powder-houJe  in 
Bojlon.     Read  a  fecond  time. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


3obi0  2  tiie  3unii  171 5. 

''  I  ""He  Committee  appointed  to  Examine  the  Treafurers  Accompts,  Reported, 
"*■  That  in  thefe  Accompts  is  an  Article  of  Eight  Pounds,  given  to  the  Troops 
that  attended  His  Excellency  the  Governour,  when  he  Re-affumed  the  Government; 
for  which  the  Treafurer  has  no  Warrant,  from  the  Governour  and  Council  diredlinfr 
its  Payment. 

And  the  Queftion  being  put.  Whether  the  faid  Article  be  allowed  in  the  faid 
Accompt  ?         It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

Capt.  Noyes  from  the  Committee  for  Petitions,  made  Report  on  the  Petition  of 
Thomas  Tarboll,  viz.  That  they  are  of  Opinion  that  nothing  is  due  from  the  Prov- 
ince to  the  faid  Tarboll,  fince  he  proceeded  as  a  Volunteer  in  that  Service  to  Canada, 
&  not  imploy'd  by  the  Government,  but  recommended  him  to  the  favour  of  the 
Houfe. 

Which  was  accepted  by  the  Houfe.  And  the  Houfe  confidering  the  Service  he 
had  done :  C  Rejolved, 


[,o] 

Rejohedy  That  the  Sum  of  Ten  Pounds  be  Allowed  and  Paid  out  of  the  Publick 
Treafury  to  Mr.  "Thomas  Tarboll  the  Petitioner  for  his  Service  mentioned  in  his 
Petition,  being  Voluntary.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Mr.  Cooke  from  the  Committee  appointed  to  Examine  the  Treafurers  Accompts, 
made  Report,  ^c. 

The  Committee  having  perufed  the  Treafurers  Accompts  for  the  Year  1714  in 
which  he  chargeth  himfelf  with  the  Sum  of  Eighty-three  Thoufand  Eight  Hundred  and 
One  Pounds,  Ten  Shillings  and  Eleven  Pence. 

We  find  that  he  has  Difcharged  himfelf  by  Order  of  the  Governour  and  Council, 
of  the  Sum  of  Fifty  One  Thoufand  Three  Hundred  &  Four  pounds  One  Shilling 
&  Nine  pence ;  and  that  there  is  Handing  out,  Seven  Thoufand,  Seven  Hundred 
and  Seventy  Five  pounds.  Three  Shillings  and  Eight  pence,  of  the  Taxes ;  Fourteen 
Thoufand  Two  Hundred  &  Nine  pounds  &  Two  pence,  Neat  Province  Bills,  for 
the  Exchange  of  Bills.  Six  Thoufand  and  Forty  Nine  pounds.  Eleven  Shillings 
and  Two  pence.  Neat  Province  Bills.  Four  thoufand  Four  hundred  and  Sixty  three 
pounds  Fourteen  Shillings  and  two  pence.  Province  Bills,  with  the  Five  per  Cent. 
advance  thereon,  to  be  drawn  into  the  Treafury  ;  being  in  the  whole.  Thirty  two 
thoufand  Four  hundred  Eighty  nine  pounds  Nine  Shillings  and  two  pence,  which  he 
is  further  to  be  Accountable  for,  befides  Twenty  thoufand  two  hundred  and  Forty 
One  pounds  of  Powder  in  the  Powder-houfe. 

And  that  he  has  remaining  in  his  hands.  Three  thoufand  Nine  hundred  and 
Fourteen  pounds  thirteen  Ihillings  and  four  pence,  to  Defray  the  charges  of  the  Year 
One  thoufand  Seven  Hundred  and  Fifteen. 

William  Paine 


Bo/ion, 
June  id.  Committee 

1715. 


Elijha  Cooke  yxn. 
-  Cha.  Chambers 
Samuel  Clap 
Jona.  Remington 


Read  and  Accepted. 

The  Accompts  of  Mr.  Jer.  Allen,  Treafurer  and  Receiver  General  of  this  Prov- 
ince beginning  the  31  Day  o{  May,  17 14.  and  continued  unto  the  16th  Day  of  May, 
17 1 5.  Amounting  unto  the  Sum  of  Eighty  three  thoufand  eight  hundred  &  One 
pounds  ten  (hillings  &  eleven  pence,  having  been  prefented  &  laid  before  the  Houfe 
of  Reprefentatives,  and  Infpedled  by  faid  Houfe,  by  which  it  appears  that  there  was 
Handing  out  on  the  faid  iGth  Day  of  May,  Seven  thoufand  feven  hundred  &  feventy 
five  pounds  three  fhillings  and  eight  pence,  of  the  Taxes  ;  Fourteen  thoufand  two 
hundred  and  nine  pounds,  and  two  pence.  Neat  Province  Bills,  for  the  Exchange  of 
Bills.  Of  Six  thoufand  &  forty  nine  pounds,  eleven  fhillings  and  two  pence,  Neat 
Province  Bills,  and  Four  thoufand  four  hundred  and  fixty  three  pounds  fourteen 
fhillings  and  two  pence  Province  Bills,  with  the  Five  per  Cent,  advance  thereon,  to 
be  drawn  into  the  Treafury  and  further  Accompted  for. 

Voted,  That  the  faid  Accompts  in  the  feveral  Articles  of  Receipts,  and  Payments 
therein  mentioned.  Amounting  unto  the  Sum  of  Fifty  One  thoufand  three  hundred 
and  Four  pounds.  One  fhilling  and  Nine  pence.  Be  and  are  hereby  Approved  and 
Allowed  of,  and  the  faid  Treafurer  is  hereby  Difcharged  of  the  faid  Sum  of  Fifty 
One  thoufand  three  hundred  and  Four  pounds  One  Ihilling  and  Nine  pence. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe,  on  a  Plat  of  Two  Hundred  Acres  of  Land,  (a  Grant 
formerly  made  to  Thomas  Eames)  pafled,  O£lob.  29.  17 14.  not  being  that  Seflion 
pafs'd  upon  in  Council. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Vote  be  Revived  and  Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  the  Children,  and  Heirs  of  Mr.  John  Haynes  late  of  Sudbury, 
deceas'd,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying  for  the  Confirmation  of  their 
Title,  to  a  certain  Trad:  of  Land,  formerly  bought  by  the  faid  Deceafed,  of  Jojeph 
Robins,  and  Benjamin  Antony,  Indians.         Committed.  In 


In  Conjideration  that  the  "Trade  of  this  Province  is  greatly  ObJlruSied,  ana  Junk  by  the 
Exportation  of  the  Coin,  ^  for  want  of  a  Medium  of  Exchange :  and  the  only  Medium  now 
faffing  in  Trade,  is  the  Bills  of  Publick  Credit,  which  are  Jo  far  drawn  in  already.  That  it 
is  a  Difficulty,  next  to  an  Impoffibility  for  this  Province  to  pay  the  Tax  of  Twenty-two 
Thoufand  Pounds,  Granted  to  be  raifed  this  Tear,  within  the  fame. 

And  Confidering,  That  no  Damage  will  accrue  to  the  Publick,  or  to  Private  Perfons, 
but  Conveniency  ^  Advantage  to  both,  by  Protracting  the  Payment  of  Part  of  the  faid 
Tax  to  a  further  convenient  time. 

Voted,  That  Eleven  Thoufand  Pounds  only  of  the  faid  Sum  be  Levied,  and  Col- 
lefted  this  prefent  Year;  and  that  the  Impoft  and  Excife  be  a  Fund  and  Security  for 
Drawing  in  the  Sum  of  Four  Thoufand  Pounds  more  thereof 

And  that  the  remaining  Sum  of  Seven  Thoufand  Pounds  be  Levied,  at  the  Seflion 
if  this  Court  in  May,  iji2.  and  Paid  in  to  the  Treafury  by  the  laft  Day  of  December 
next  after.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Ordered,  That  Col.  IVinthrop,  Capt.  Noyes,  Col.  Thaxter,  Mr.  Parfons,  Mr.  Epps, 
and  Capt.  Arnold,  be  a  Committee  to  Inquire  after  a  Suitable  &  Convenient  Houfe, 
for  the  Reception  &  Entertainment  of  His  Excellency  Col.  Surges,  our  expefted 
Governour,  when  he  fhall  Arrive,  and  to  make  Report  to  the  Houfe. 

A  Petition  of  the  Sele6t-men  of  the  Town  of  Newton,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and 
Read,  praying  this  Court  to  fend  a  Committee,  to  View  the  faid  Town,  and  Con- 
y  fider  of  and  Determine  the  mod  convenient  Place  for  the  Ere6ting  a  Meeting  Houfe 
for  the  Publick  Worfhip,  that  fliall  beft  accommodate  the  whole  Town.  Sent  down 
from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.  In  Council,  May  31.  17 15.  Read  & 
Accepted.  And  the  laft  Committee  whereof  John  Otis  Efq;  was  Chairman,  are 
ippointed  a  Committee,  to  go  upon  the  Place,  and  prefix  the  certain  Spot,  for 
t  reding  a  Meeting-Houfe;  and  this  to  be  a  final  Settlement  of  the  Town  referring 
to  the  Place,  for  Ere6ling  a  Houfe,  for  the  Publick  Worfhip  of  God. 
Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  and  Concurr'd. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


Oencris  3  tic  Jnnii  1715 

A  Petition  of  Ifaac  Amfden  and  Sixty-fix  Others  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of 
■*  ^  Marlborough,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying  that  an  Addition 
may  be  made  to  the  faid  Town,  of  certain  Lands  lying  between  it,  and  the  South 
Line  of  the  Town  of  Lane  after,  and  of  Sundry  Farms  adjoining  to  them. 

And  a  Petition  of  feveral  Inhabitants  of  the  faid  Farms,  Read,  praying  that  they 
may  be  annexed  to  the  Town  of  Marlborough. 

Referr'd  to  confideration  at  the  next  Seilion. 

A  Petition  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  firft,  and  eldeft  Precind,  in  the  Eaft  part  of 
the  Town  of  Springfield,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying  that  the  Lands 
belonging  to  them,  which  lie  within  the  Precinft  called  Long  Meadow  PrecinEi,  may 
be  Excufed  for  paying  to  the  Miniftry  there,  and  pay  to  the  firft  Precinft. 

And  the  Queftion  being  put.  Whether  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  granted .'' 
It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

A  Motion  being  made  by  Jo/eph  Parjons  Efq;  Afking  leave  to  bring  in  a  Bill 
for  the  prefervation  of  Pine  Trees  : 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Parfons  have  leave  to  bring  in  a  Bill  for  the  prefervation  of 
Pine  Trees. 

The  Petition  of  Jofeph  Morfe,  praying,  as  entred  the  28/A  May  laft.  Read  again. 
The  Surveyor  that  took  the  Plat  therein  referr'd  to,  being  Sworn.  And  the  follow- 
ing Vote  pafs'd  and  entred  on  the  Plat,  viz.  This  Plat  having  been  prefented  for 
Confirmation,  and  Viewed  and  Infpedted  by  the  Houfe. 

Ordered 


[.2] 

Ordered,  That  the  Land  therein  Defcribed  be  Allowed,  Granted,  and  Confirmed 
to  the  Town  of  Sherbourn,  as  an  equivalent  for  the  Seventeen  Families  laid  to  Fratn- 
ingham.  Mentioned  in  the  Plat :     Provided  it  intrench  upon  no  former  Grant. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Jofeph  Green  of  Salem,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying, 
That  a  Surveyor  may  be  appointed  to  lay  out  a  Farm  formerly  Granted,  to  Marfhal 
General  Mitchelfon  (the  laying  out  of  that,  and  Mr.  Green  the  Printer's  Farm  Inter- 
fering with  one  another.)  Committed. 

A  Petition  of  John  Brigham,  and  thirty  Others,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read, 
praying.  That  a  Trad:  of  Land  lying  between  Marlborough,  Lancajler,  Worcejler  and 
AJfanomiJco,  may  be  Granted  to  them  with  the  Privileges  of  a  Townfhip  ;  Referving 
to  the  Interefted  fuch  prior  Grants  as  are  therein  included. 

Referr'd  to  further  Confideration  at  the  Sext  \next\  Seffion. 

The  Petition  of  Jofeph  Hammond,  praying  as  entred  the  firft  Currant,  further 
confidered  and  the  Report  of  the  Committee  thereon,  which  was  Accepted  by  the 
Houfe,  and  accordingly,   In  anfwer  to  the  faid   Petition  : 

Rejolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Five  pounds  be  allowed  and  paid  out  of  the  Publick 
Treafury  to  Mr.  Jofeph  Hammond,  the  Petitioner,  for  his  Service  fet  forth  in  his 
Petition.  Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  ^-jth  of  May  laft,  for  Souldiers  to  Cover  the 
Settlement  at  Arrowfick  Ifland,  fent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  on  there,  viz.  In 
Council,  May  31.  Read  and  Concurr'd,  and  that  His  Excellency  be  defired  to  add 
Ten  Men  more  to  the  Garrifon  at  Cafco  for  the  prefent  Exigency,  and  until  further 
Order.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  and  Committed  to  the  Committee 

for  Petitions. 

A  Memorial  of  Samuel  Partridge  Efq  ;  the  Reprefentatives  of  the  feveral  Towns 
of  the  County  of  Hampjhire,  and  Others,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying. 
That  a  Committee  may  be  appointed,  to  Difcover  the  moft  convenient  Courfe,  for  a 
Cart-way  to  be  made  in,  from  Marlborough  to  Brookfield,  to  Springfield,  and  from 
Brookfield  to  Hadley  ;  and  Report  a  Calculation  of  what  they  fuppofe  it  may  Coll  to 
make  fuch  Roads  paffable,  in  order  to  it's  being  done. 

Ordered,  That  Col.  Thaxter,  Mr.  William  Wilfon,  &  Jojeph  Parjons  Efq  ;  be  a 
Committee  to  Difcover  &  Report  the  moft  convenient  Courfe  for  the  Roads  pro- 
pofed  in  the  faid  Memorial,  together  with  a  Computation  of  the  charge  it  will  proba- 
bly Demand  to  make  them  paffable.  Provided  the  Petitioners,  or  the  County  of 
Hampjhire,  will  bear  the  charge  of  the  Committee.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

foil  JEmtJtem. 

Capt.  Noyes,  from  the  Committee  appointed  to  confider  of  a  Suitable  Place  for 
the  Reception  &  Entertainment  of  Col.  Surges  upon  His  Arrival  to  this  Govern- 
ment. Reported,  That  inafmuch  as  there  is  no  Suitable  Houfe  to  be  Let,  and  the 
Manfion  Houfe,  Land  &  Garden,  &c.  of  Peter  Sergeant  Efq  ;  deceas'd  is  now  upon 
Sale:  The  Committee  are  of  Opinion  that  it  would  be  for  the  Intereft  &  Benefit  of 
this  Province  to  purchafe  the  fame  for  their  Ufe  &  Improvement. 

The  Petition  of  Jojeph  Green,  praying  as  entred  this  Day,  further  confidered,  and 
the  Report  of  the  Committee  thereon,  which  was  accepted  by  the  Houfe,  and 
accordingly. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioner  may  Imploy  an  able  Sworn  Surveyor  with  Men 
under  Oath  to  carry  the  Chain,  to  lay  out  fo  much  of  the  Province  Land  adjoining 
to  Mitchel/on's  Farm,  as  by  niiftake  was  taken  up  of  Green's  Farm,  in  the  firft  laying 
out  of  Mitchelfon  s  Farm,  fo  as  that  the  faid  Mitchelfon  s  Farm,  may  contain  three 
hundred  Acres,  as  at  firft  Granted ;  and  lay  a  Plat  thereof  before  this  Court  for 
Confirmation.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Complaint 


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Complaint  having  been  made  to  this  Houfe  the  firjl  of  this  Inftant  June,  That  Mr- 
Samuel  Sternes,  a  Member  of  this  Houfe  i£  Reprefentative  of  the  Town  of  Watcrtown, 
and  Treafurer  of  the  /aid  Town,  has  oppofed  the  Execution  of  the  Orders  of  this  Court, 
relating  to  the  Maintenance  of  the  Minijlry  in  the /aid  Town. 

And  Mr.  Sternes  at  his  Deftre,  had  time  given  him  till  this  Day  to  make  anfwer  to  the 
Complaint,  which  he  did;  /everal  of  his  friends  in  the  f aid  Town,  together  with  the  Com- 
plainents,  being  prefent ;  And  both  Parties  having  been  heard,  they  withdrew. 

And  Mr.  Sternes  was  directed  to  withdraw  until  he  is  called  for. 
After  some  Debate: 

The  ^ejiion  was  put.  Whether  the  Houfe  is  of  Opinion  that  Mr.  Sternes  is  guilty  of 
Oppofing  the  Execution  of  the  Orders  of  this  Court  relating  to  the  Maintenance  of  the 
Minijlry  in  Watertown  ? 

And  it  pqfs'd  in  the  Negative. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Sternes  be  called  in,  and  have  a  caution  given  him  in  the 
words  following,  viz. 

Mr.  Sternes,  This  Houfe  have  been  fo  tender  as  not  to  Vote  you  guilty  of 
Oppofing  the  Orders  of  this  Court  in  the  Articles  complain'd  of  againft  you.  Yet 
they  are  very  fenfible  you  have  not  fo  encouraged  &  promoted  Obedience  thereunto 
as  the  publick  Station,  you  have  flood  in,  have  Obliged  you  to  do  :  And  therefore 
caution  you  for  the  future  to  be  very  careful  that  you  do  not  by  word  or  deed 
Encourage  a  Difobedience  to  them. 

But  Advife  &  Exhort  you,  to  ufe  all  proper  Methods  agreeable  to  your  Duty  as 
a  Chriftian,  a  Member  of  this  Court,  and  an  Officer  in  the  Town,  to  promote  and 
forward  a  compliance,  with  the  Orders  of  this  Court,  for  the  Support  of  the  Miniflry 
in  your  Town,  that  there  be  no  further  Difputes,  or  Differences  about  the  raifing  the 
Maintenance  of  your  Miniflers,  so  plainly  Dire6led  in  the  Orders  of  this  Court. 
And  in  that  Expe6lation,  we  continue  &  entertain  you  a  Member  of  this  Honour- 
able Houfe. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  Ail  in  Addition  to  an  A5t  for  Erecting  a  Powder-houfe  in 
Bofton. 

Read  a  third  time. 

Ordered,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  EngrofTed.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


j&abbati  4  tiic  Junii  171 5. 

A  Petition  of  Con/lant  Freeman  Reprefentative  of  the  Town  of  Truro,  prefented  to 
■^  ^  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying.  That  the  Province  Land  at  Cape  Cod,  not  in- 
cluded within  the  Bounds  of  any  Townfhip,  may  be  added  to  the  Town  of  Truro, 
and  fo  be  brought  under  Government ;  Or  elfe  that  the  Inhabitants  there  may  not 
belong  to  the  Conftablerick  of  the  faid  Town,  for  reafons  therein  mentioned. 
Committed. 
A  Report  of  the  Committee  for  Petitions,  on  the  Report  of  the  Committee  for 
Setling  of  the  Ea/lern  Parts  of  this  Province.  Read  and  Debated,  Paragraph  by 
Paragraph :  And  feveral  Paragraphs  Voted  with  fome  Amendments. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  Tuefday  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


iltiirtts  7  l)ic  '^xmix  1715- 

A  Petition  of  Samuel  Partridge  Efq  ;  John  Stoddard  Efq ;  and  Henry  Dwight,  the 
Committee  for  Setling  of  the  Town  of  Northfield,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  & 
Read,  praying  the  Direftion  of  this  Court,  in  feveral  Articles  relating  to  the  Settle- 
ment of  the  faid  Place.         Committed. 

D  A 


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A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£i  for  altering  the  'Time  for  the  holding  the  Courts  of  General 
Seffion  of  the  Peace  £5?  Inferiour  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  within  the  County  of  Barnftable, 
pafs'd  at  the  Board  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence. 
Read  a  firft  time. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A5i  againfl  Burglary,  pafs'd  at  the  Board  to  be  Engrofs'd. 
Sent  down  for  Concurrence.         Read  a  firft  time. 

A  Plat  of  One  Hundred  Acres  of  Land  laid  out  by  Thomas  White  Surveyor,  con- 
tiguous to  the  Town  of  Mendon,  being  imployed  by  the  Heirs  of  Simon  Broadjlreet 
Efq ;  deceafed,  formerly  Governour  of  the  late  Colony  of  the  Majfachujetts-Bay,  pur- 
fuant  to  a  Grant  of  this  Court,  made  Novemb.  21.  1702.  Prefented  to  the  Houfe 
for  confirmation. 

Ordered,  That  the  Lands  fo  Platted  be  confirmed  to  fuch  of  the  Heirs  of  Simon 
Broadjlreet  Efq  ;  as  of  Right  the  faid  Grant  doth  belong.     Provided  it  doth  not 
exceed  the  Quantity  of  One  Thoufand  Acres,  nor  intrench  upon  any  former  Grant, 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Ifaac  Hubbard  and  Thirteen  Others,  Proprietors  of  the  Town  of 
Swampfield,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying,  That  the  faid  Townfliip  may 
be  Inlarged,  by  the  Addition  of  more  Land  thereto.         Committed. 

A  Petition  of  Mary  Cole  of  Bofton,  Widow,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read, 
praying,  That  fhe  may  be  Enabled  to  Mortgage  the  Houfe  &  Lands  which  were  her 
late  Huft)ands  Henry  Coles,  for  400  /.  to  redeem  them  from  a  Mortgage  of  300  /. 
and   to  pay  other  Debts. 

The  Report  of  the  Committee  for  Petitions,  upon  the  Report  of  the  Committee 
for  Setling  the  Eajlern  Parts  of  this  Province,  further  confidered,  and  fome  other 
Paragraphs  thereof  Voted. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board,  That  according  to  the  Order  of  the  Day,  Mr. 
Speaker  and  the  Houfe  now  come  up  to  attend  two  Hearings. 

The  One  upon  the  Petition  of Lovering  of  London,  per  John  Merion  his 

Attorney, Kimball  of  Watertown  the  adverfe  party. 

The  Other  on  the  Petition  of  Richard  Coomes,  &  Hephzibah  his  Wife.  The 
Heirs  of  Florence  Maccarty  the  adverfe  party. 

Mr.  Speaker,  and  the  Houfe  went  up  accordingly,  and  the  faid  Hearings  being 
finifli'd  Return'd  to  their  own  Chamber. 


The  Vote  of  this  Houfe,  pafs'd  the  2d.  of  June,  Inftant,  for  Raifing  the  Tax  of 
Eleven  Thoufand  pounds  only  this  Year,  ^c.  Sent  down  from  the  Board,  not 
Concurr'd.  Read,  and  further  confider'd,  and 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Vote  be  Infifted  on  and  fent  up  again. 

A  Petition  of  Jonathan  Hajlings  of  Cambridge,  prefented  to  the  Houfe,  and  Read, 
praying,  That  he  may  be  enabled  to  have  a  Hearing  of  Two  Aftions  between  him 
and  Job  Bull  of  Bojlon,  who  Married  Sarah  the  Widow  of  Richard  Sherin,  before  the 
next  Superiour  Court  of  Judicature,  to  be  holden  at  Charljlown ;  having  Appealed 
from  the  Judgment  of  the  Inferiour  Court,  to  the  Superiour  Court,  and  by  a  Miftake 
in  his  reafons  of  Appeal,  both  his  Adlions  were  Difmift,  by  the  Superiour  Court. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioner  ferve  the  adverfe  Party  with  a  Copy  of  the  Petition, 
and  Notifie  them  that  they  may  be  heard  before  this  Court  on  Friday  next,  if  they 
have  Plea  to  make  why  the  prayer  thereof  fhould  not  be  Granted. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Report  of  the  Committee,  for  Petitions  upon  the  Report  of  the  Committee 
for  Setling  the  Eajlern  Parts  of  this  Province,  further  confidered,  and  the  remaining 
Paragraphs  thereof  Voted  with  fome  Amendments  ;  and  the  whole  is  as  follows,  viz. 
In  anfwer  to  the  Propofals  of  Thomas  Hutchinfon  &  John  Wintworth  Efqrs.  in  behalf 

of 


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of  themfelves  &  Partners,  recommended  by  the  Committee  of  the  Eaflern  Claims, 
for  the  Setling  of  Two  Towns  forthwith  in  a  regular  &  defenfible  manner. 

Voted,  That  the  faid  Towns  propofed  to  be  Setled  be  accepted,  and  encouraged 
according  to  their  Report. 

That  the  Land  Platted  for  a  Town  from  Pejep/cot  Falls,  to  Macquoit  in  Ca/co  Bay 
be  Conftituted  a  Townfhip,  to  be  Laid  out;  the  quantity  of  Six  Miles  Square,  as 
the  Land  will  allow ;  and  be  called  by  the  Name  of  Brunfwick,  to  be  forthwith  Setled 
in  a  defenfible  manner. 

That  the  Other  Town  Platted  in  a  Square  of  a  Mile  to  the  Eaftward  of  Ambrof- 
cogging  River,  fronting  to  Merry  Meeting  Bay,  be  allowed  &  accepted  by  the  Name 
of  Top/ham,  and  be  Platted  &  Laid  out,  the  quantity  of  Six  Miles  Square,  as  the 
Land  will  allow  ;  and  a  Return  made  in  fome  convenient  time  to  this  Honourable 
Court. 

Voted,  That  for  the  Satisfaction  &  Encouragement  of  thofe  that  offer  to  Settle  in 
the  faid  Towns,  that  this  Court  give  a  Confirmation  to  their  Purchafe,  as  Bounded 
and  laid  down  in  their  Propofals,  with  a  Saving  for  any  and  all  other  Grants,  Titles, 
Intereft,  or  Eftates  that  may  be  found  within  the  fame.  And  particularly,  that  of 
Harvard  College,  and  with  a  refervation  of  the  Rights,  Improvements  &  Pofleffions 
of  any  Inhabitants  or  Proprietors.  Provided  always,  and  it  is  to  be  underftood  that 
thofe  perfons  (hall  be  fubjedl  to  fuch  regulations  of  this  Court,  as  has  been  made  for 
their  Settling  in  a  defenfible  manner. 

Voted,  That  the  faid  Townfhips  be  freed  from  the  Province  Taxes,  for  the  fpace 
of  Five  Years,  from  their  firft  Setting  down  ;  and  this  Court  do  encourage  the  Min- 
iftry,  as  fhall  appear  reafonable  unto  them.  Provided,  That  the  Propofers  on  their 
part,  perform  what  they  offer  of  Encouraging  a  Miniftry,  Minifter  &  Schools,  and 
Proceeding  forthwith,  to  Grant  fuch  Trails  in  Fee  to  fuch  as  will  Settle  there.  And 
in  order  to  the  Covering  thefe  Settlements  the  Stone  Fort  near  Pejep/cot  Falls  be 
repaired,  and  that  Fifteen  Men,  One  of  which  to  be  a  Serjeant,  with  a  Commiflion 
Officer  upon  Enfignes  Pay,  be  placed  there  for  the  Proted:ion  &  Affiftance  of  the 
New  Settlements,  in  the  room  of  the  Fort,  or  Trading  Houfe  at  Ca/co,  which  being 
much  out  of  Repair,  We  are  of  Opinion,  It  is  for  His  Majefty's  Service,  It  be 
flighted  and  no  longer  continued.  That  his  Excellency  the  Governour  be  defired  to 
give  his  Orders  accordingly,  and  alfo  for  the  Inlifting  Five  Men,  which  with  Ten 
Men  taken  from  Ca/co  makes  the  Complement  for  Brun/wick. 

And  in  anfwer  to  the  Reprefentation  of  Mr.  Edward  Hutchin/on,  They  humbly 
offer  that  the  other  Twenty  Men  of  the  Complement,  that  is  now  at  Ca/co  be 
removed  to  Arrow/ick  Ifland  for  their  Covering,  for  the  fpace  of  Six  Months,  and 
no  more,  agreeable  to  the  Grant  of  the  General  Court. 

Voted,  That  Major  John  Wheelwright,  Mr.  Abraham  Prebble,  Mr.  Jo/eph  Ham- 
mond, Charles  Fro/i  Efq;  Mr.  John  Leighton,  and  any  Three  of  them  be  a  Committee, 
to  Profecute  the  regular  Settlements,  of  the  Eaflern  Frontier,  and  that  in  anfwer  to 
the  Petition  of  the  Proprietors  of  Cape  Porpus,  and  Black  Point  to  the  Committee 
for  Claims,  the  faid  Committee  be  DireAed  to  lay  out  the  Town  Plats,  in  a  regular 
and  defenfible  manner,  at  the  charge  of  the  Proprietors,  and  of  fuch  other  Town  as 
fhall  offer  agreeable  to  the  Order  of  the  Court. 

Voted,  That  the  Memorial  oflfered  by  the  Reverend  Mr.  Samuel  Emery,  and  Mr. 
Samuel  Moodey,  be  referred  to  the  faid  Committee,  to  Report  to  this  Court  the  State 
of  Winter  Harbour. 

Voted,  That  agreeable  to  the  Committee  of  Claims  Report,  relating  to  a  Road  to 
the  Eaftern  Settlements.  We  are  of  Opinion  that  it  is  necelTary  that  a  Road  be  laid 
out  in  the  moft  convenient  Place,  from  Wells  or  Newitchawanock  to  Pejep/cot  Falls,  as 
fhall  be  thought  moft  convenient  &  pradlicable,  and  a  Computation  made  of  the 
charge,  be  laid  before  this  Court ;  and  that  it  be  an  Inftruftion  to  the  faid  Commit- 
tee, to  caufe  the  fame  to  be  Surveyed,  &  to  make  their  Report  of  the  Place  &  charge. 
And  that  a  Committee  of  both  Houfes  be  appointed  to  prepare  the  Draught  of  an 

Aft, 


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AA,  for  fettling  and  quieting  the  Titles  of  the  Lands  that  are  to  the  Eaftward  of 
Pifcataqua  River.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Complaint  being  made  to  the  Houfe  that  Capt.  Benjamin  Stevens,  One  of  the  Members 
thereof,  Reprefentative  of  the  Town  of  Andover,  was  within  the  time  of  the  prefent 
SeJJion,  viz.  Tejlerday  Arrejled  in  a  Civil  A6lion,  by  Benjamin  Coker,  Under  Sheriff  of 
the  County  of  Eflex,  by  virtue  of  a  Warrant  granted  by  Jofeph  Woodbridge  Efq  ;  Jujlice 
of  the  Peace ;  which  is  an  Indignity  offered  to  this  Houfe,  a  manifejl  Breach  of  the  Privi- 
lege thereof,  ^  a  'Tran/greffion  of  the  Law  of  this  Province. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Juftice  Woodbridge,  and  Mr.  Under-Sheriff  Coker,  be  Sum- 
moned by  a  Warrant  from  Mr.  Speaker  forthwith  to  appear  before  this  Houfe  to 
anfwer  for  their  fo  doing. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Seth  Sweetfor  of  Charlejlown,  be  impowered,  &  imployed  as  a 
Meffenger  of  this  Houfe  to  go  and  Serve  the  faid  Summons. 

A  Petition  of  Serjeant  Daniel  Tucker,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying 
for  confideration  &  Allowance  to  be  Granted  to  him  towards  his  Support,  being 
under  Cure  of  a  Gun-fhot  Wound  he  received  in  the  Service  againft  the  Indian 
Enemy,  in  the  late  War. 

Re/olved,  That  the  Sum  of  Ten  Pounds  be  Allowed,  and  Paid  out  of  the  Publick 
Treafury  to  Daniel  Tucker  the  Petitioner,  towards  his  Support. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Brookfield,  prefented  to  the  Houfe 
and  Read,  praying,  That  the  Lands  of  Non-Rejident  Proprietors,  and  other  unoccu- 
pied Lands  in  the  faid  Town,  may  be  made  liable  to  Town  AffefTments,  for  reafons 
therein  rendred.  Committed. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


Ittewurii  8  tiie  '^unii  171 5. 

A  Petition  of  Wait  Winthrop  Efq  ;  praying.  That  the  Committee  appointed  to 
■^^  lay  out  the  Town  of  Brimfield,  may  be  forbidden  to  proceed  therein,  fo  as  to 
Encroach  upon  a  Traft  of  Land  belonging  to  him  at  Tantiufques,  or  the  Black  Lead 
Mine  Hill.  And  that  he  may  be  Allowed  to  take  a  Plat  of  his  Land  there  by  an  able 
Surveyor  at  his  own  charge,  and  lay  the  fame  before  this  Court  for  Confirmation. 
Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.  In  Council  June  \th  17 15. 
Read  and  Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  this  Petition  be  Granted. 
Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  and 

Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  the  faid  Petition  be  fo  far  Granted,  That  the 
Petitioner  may  imploy  at  his  own  charge  an  able  Surveyor,  with  Chain-men  under 
Oath,  to  lay  out  Four  Miles  Square  of  Land,  which  fliall  include  the  Black  Lead 
Mines  that  have  been  Opened  in  the  Hill  Tantiufques,  mentioned  in  the  Petition, 
without  Intrenching  on  any  former  Grant;  and  prefent  a  Plat  thereof,  to  this  Court 
for  Confirmation  at  their  Seffion  the  next  Autumn ;  and  that  the  Surveyor  and 
Chain-men  were  under  Oath,  to  be  certified  on  the  Plat. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board,  That  Mr.  Speaker,  and  the  Houfe,  now  come  up  to 
the  Council  Chamber,  to  attend  the  Hearing  Ordered  to  be  this  day,  upon  the 
Petition  of  that  Part  of  Hingham  called  Conihaffet,  praying  they  may  be  made  a 
Separate  Precinft. 

Mr.  Speaker,  and  the  Houfe  went  up  accordingly,  and  when  the  Petitioners,  and 
the  other  Part  of  the  faid  Town  had  been  fully  heard,  they  withdrew.  And  Mr. 
Speaker  and  the  Houfe  return'd  to  their  own  Chamber. 

A 


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A  Memorial  of  Capt.  Zechariah  Tuthil  Viflualler  of  His  Majefty's  Garrifon  at 
Caftle  fVilliam,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying  the  Court  to  Dire6l  and 
Order  him  a  meet  Allowance  per  Man,  for  his  Viftualling  of  the  faid  Garrifon  for 
the  Year  next  coming.         Committed. 

^oll  iltmtiiem. 

The  Memorial  of  the  Reverend  Minifters,  Moving  that  a  Synod  be  Aflembled, 
which  was  Read  the  firft  Inflant.     Read  again  and  upon  a  Motion  being  made, 

Ordered,  That  any  of  the  Subfcribers  thereof  be  admitted  into  the  Houfe,  when 
they  fliall  defire  it,  to  fpeak  to  their  Memorial. 

The  Petition  of  that  part  of  the  Town  of  Hingham,  called  Conihajfet,  upon  which 
a  Hearing  was  had  this  Day :  Sent  down  from  the  Board,  paffed  upon  there,  viz. 
In  Council,  June  %th  1715.  A  Hearing  having  been  upon  this  Petition,  Ordered, 
That  John  Cu/hing,  Thomas  Fitch,  Thomas  Oliver  isf  Edmund  Sluinfey  Efqrs.  or  any 
three  of  them  be  a  Committee,  with  fuch  as  the  Reprefentatives  fhall  add  to  them, 
to  Repair  to  Hingham,  giving  a  Weeks  Notice  to  the  Sele6t-men  of  the  Town,  that 
they  may  appoint  &  warn  a  Town-Meeting.  And  that  the  faid  Committee  do  pro- 
ceed to  hear  the  Town,  and  the  Petitioners  on  the  Articles  mentioned  in  the 
Petition.  And  that  they  ufe  all  means  that  the  Petitioners  may  be  peaceably 
eftabliflied  in  the  Support  of  a  Minifter  at  Conihajfet,  as  is  defired  ;  and  that  they 
make  Report  of  their  proceedings,  to  the  next  Seffion  of  the  General  Aflembly. 
Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  &  Concurr'd  ;  Provided,  That  two  Months 
time  be  firft  allowed  to  the  Petitioners  to  apply  themfelves  in  a  fuitable  manner  to 
the  Town,  that  the  affair  may  in  the  moft  peaceable  Method  be  accommodated 
amongft  themfelves.  But  if  after  the  faid  time  is  Expired,  the  Petitioners  (having 
fo  applied  themfelves  without  fuccefs)  Do  attend  the  Committee  herein  Conftituted, 
with  their  Defire,  That  in  fuch  Cafe,  Capt.  Stephen  French,  Seth  Arnold  Efqr ;  Mr. 
John  Ward,  Capt.  I/aac  Little,  and  Col.  Adam  Winthrop,  (any  Four  of  them  to  be  a 
Sluorum  as  to  this  Houfe)  are  Nominated  to  joyn  with  the  Committee  of  the  Hon- 
ourable Board,  for  the  Service  above-mentioned.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  ASt  againjl  Burglary,  Read  a  2d,  and  a  3d  time,  and 

Refolved,  A  Concurrence  that  the  Bill  be  Engrofs'd  with  the  Amendments 
annexed. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  AH  for  altering  the  time  for  holding  the  Courts  of  General 
SeJfton  of  the  Peace,  &*  Inferiour  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  within  the  County  of  Barnftable. 
Read  a  2d  &  a  3d  time,  and 

Refolved,  a  Concurrence  that  the  Bill  be  engrofs'd,  with  the  Amendments  annex'd. 

The  Petition  of  David  Lovering  by  John  Merion  his  Attorney,  on  which  there 
was  a  Hearing  Yefterday  :   Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.     In 
Council,   June   Sth.    17 15.  on    confideration    of  the    Allegations    Yefterday    in    the 
Hearing  upon  this  Petition.     Ordered,  That  the  Petition  be  Difmifled. 
Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  and  Concurr'd. 

A  Petition  of  Jofiah  Chapin  of  Mendon  Efqr ;  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read, 
Shewing,  That  in  the  Year  1664.  the  General  Court  Granted  to  his  late  Father 
Samuel  Chapin,  Two  Hundred  Acres  of  Country  Land,  which  Grant  was  laid  out  as 
was  fuppofed  without  the  Bounds  of  the  faid  Town,  but  is  lince  upon  Running  the 
Line  found  to  be  within  them.  Praying,  That  he  may  be  allowed  to  take  up  and 
lay  out  the  faid  Grant  of  Two  Hundred  Acres,  in  another  place  in  the  Province 
Land,  where  it  may  be  found. 

Ordeied,  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  Granted  :  And  that  the  Land  be 
laid  out  in  a  proper  regular  Form,  by  an  able  Surveyor,  and  Chain-men  under  Oath ; 
the  Plat  thereof  to  be  laid  before  this  Court,  for  Approbation. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 


And  then  the  Houfe  Adjoum'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 

E 


^obis 


[.8] 

MR.  Coo;^^  from  the  Committee  appointed  to  prepare  the  Draught  of  fuch  Bills, 
as  were  proper  now  to  be  Enadled,  Offered  to  the  Houfe  the  following  Bills, 

viz. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  yf«  A£lfor  Reviving  ^further  Continuing  fever  al  Rates  i£  Duties 
of  Impojl  &  Tunnage  of  Shipping,  &c. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A5t  for  the  better  Preferving,  Increafing  &  Securing  Naval 
Stores,  particularly.  Tar,  Turpentine,  &  Rozin,  within  this  Province. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£i  for  the  more  due  &  equal  Raifing  of  Money,  for  Defraying 
of  the  Charges  arifing  in  each  refpeSfive  County,  within  this  Province. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A^  for  the  Reviving  ^  Continuing,  An  A61  for  Raifing  an 
Excife  upon  Wines,  Liquors,  and  other  Strong  Drinks,  Sold  by  Retail,  ^c. 
All  which  were  Read  the  firft  time. 

Agreeable  to  the  Vote  of  the  Houfe  Yefterday,  the  Reverend  Mr.  Wadfworth, 
Mr.  Pemberton  &  Mr.  Colman,  were  admitted  into  the  Houfe,  and  by  Sundry  Argu- 
ments inforc'd  the  Memorial  of  the  Reverend  Minifters,  for  the  Convening  of  a 
Synod,  and  withdrew. 

Upon  a  Motion  being  made; 

Ordered,  That  the  Reverend  Dr.  Increafe  Mather,  with  any  Other  of  the  Reverend 
Minifters  that  Defire  it,  may  be  heard  before  this  Houfe  upon  the  faid  Memorial,  at 
Four  a  Clock  this  day. 

A  Petition  of  Simeon  Stoddard  Efq ;  and  189  Others  Principally  Inhabitants  of 
the  Town  of  Bojlon,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying.  That  a  Medium  of 
Exchange  in  Trade,  may  be  provided  by  this  Court,  for  Reafons  therein  fet  forth. 

Poll  itterititetn» 

Agreeable  to  the  Order  of  the  Houfe  this  Day  the  Reverend  Dr.  Increafe 
Mather,  was  admitted  into  the  Houfe,  and  Afligned  feveral  Reafons  why  he  thought 
that  a  Synod  fhould  not  be  Convened  at  this  time,  as  was  moved  by  the  Memorial 
of  the  Reverend  Minifters,  and  with-drew. 

Ordered,  That  a  Light-houfe  be  Eredled  at  the  charge  of  this  Province,  at  the 
Entrance  of  the  Harbour  of  Boflon,  on  the  fame  Place  and  Rates  propofed  in  a  Bill, 
projedled  for  the  Town  of  Boflon  s  doing  it,  accompanying  this  Vote  ;  and  that  a 
Bill  be  drawn  accordingly.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  following  Vote  fent  down  from  the  Board,  viz.  In  Council  June  gth  171 5. 
Ordered,  That  Andrew  Belcher,  Thomas  Fitch  Efqrs.  and  Mr.  Treafurer  Allen,  with 
fuch  as  the  Reprefentatives  fhall  appoint,  be  a  Committee  to  infpeft  the  former  Grants 
&  Funds,  of  the  General  Court,  in  order  to  the  fetling  the  Tax  for  this  prefent  Year, 
and  Report  the  fame.  Sent  down  for  Concurrence. 
Read  and  Non-concurr'd. 

The  Petition  of  Mary  Cole,  praying  as  entred  the  7th  Currant.  Read  again,  and 
fent  up. 

An  Accompt  of  Rowland  Dike  of  the  charge  of  his  Dining  this  Houfe  on  the 
laft  Day  of  Ele6lion  of  Councellors,  Amounting  to  12  /.  15  j.  prefented  to  the 
Houfe  for  Allowance  and  Payment. 

Refolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Twelve  Pounds  and  Fifteen  Shillings,  be  allowed  and 
paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  Rowland  Dike,  the  Accomptant  to  Difcharge  the 
laid  Accompt.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Capt.  Noyes  from  the  Committee  for  Petitions  made  Report  on  the  Memorial  of 
Capt.  Zechariah  Tuthil  that  was  Committed  Yefterday,  which  was  accepted  by  the 
Houfe,  and  accordingly. 

Ordered,  That  Four  Shillings  &  Ten  Pence,  half  Peny  per  Man  per  Week,  be 
Allowed  for  the  Vidualling  of  the  Garrifon  at  Caftle  William,  for  the  fpace  of  One 
Year  next  coming.  And 


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And  that  no  perfon  whatfoever,  Voluntarily  Inlifting  himfelf  for  His  Majefty's 
Service  at  the  faid  Caftle,  (hall  upon  any  Occafion  whatfoever  be  removed  from  thence 
for  Service  elfe  where.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Capt.  Noyes  from  the  Committee  for  Petitions,  made  Report,  on  the  feveral  Peti- 
tions after  named,  which  were  accepted  by  the  Houfe,  and  the  following  Orders 
agreeable  there-unto  pafled  thereon,  viz. 

The  Petition  of  the  Town  of  Truro,  praying  as  entred  the  4th  Currant. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners  Serve  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Precin6l  at  Cape  Cod, 
or  the  Principal  of  them,  with  a  Copy  of  this  Petition,  That  they  may  (hew  Reafon, 
if  any  they  have,  why  the  prayer  thereof  (hould  not  be  Granted,  on  the  (irft  Tuefday 
of  the  next  Seflion  of  this  Court.  And  alfo,  why  they  do  not  Entertain  a  Learned 
Orthodox  Minifter  of  the  Gofpel,  to  difpenfe  the  Word  of  God  to  them,  as  they  are 
Directed,  by  an  A6t  of  this  Court,  made  the  laft  Year  for  that  end. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Petition  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Brookfield,  praying  as  entred  the 
1th  Currant. 

Ordered,  That  for  Seven  Years  next  coming  all  Town  A(re(rments,  in  Brookfield 
be  Raifed  on  Polls,  as  the  Law  direfts,  and  on  the  Real  Eftates  of  the  Non-Refident 
as  well  as  the  Re(ident,  Proprietors  exclufive  of  Perfonal  Eftate,  which  the  Committee 
for  Setting  the  faid  Town,  are  hereby  Direded  and  fully  Impowred  to  Levy  and 
Colledt  accordingly  ;  so  long  as  they  (hall  be  continued  by  this  Court. 

And  to  take  care  the  Town  be  Setled  in  the  moft  regular,  compadl,  and  defen(i- 
ble  manner  that  may  be.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Petition  of  the  Committee  for  Setling  the  Town  of  Northfield,  praying  as 
entred  the  7M  Currant. 

Ordered,  That  the  Order  of  this  Court,  pa(red  at  their  Se(fion  in  Febr.  Anno  1713. 
for  Settlement  of  the  Town  of  Northfield,  be  further  continued  for  three  Years  more. 
That  the  Committee  be  Direfted  to  Setle  the  Town  in  the  moft  regular,  and  defenfi- 
ble  manner  that  may  be.  That  all  Town  Taxes  in  Northfield  for  the  Space  of  Five 
Years  next  coming,  be  Rais'd  on  Polls  as  the  Law  dire(5Vs,  and  on  the  Lands  that  are 
or  (hall  be  Divided  or  Allotted  out ;  and  that  where  a  General,  or  Common  Field, 
or  Fields,  is  agreed  upon  to  be  Fenced  in  for  Improvement,  The  Proprietors  of  the 
Inclofed  Land  (hall  pay  their  juft  Proportion  towards  the  charge  of  Making  and 
Maintaining  the  Fence,  whether  they  Improve  their  Land  or  no;  and  if  any  fuch 
Proprietors  are  out  of  the  Province,  and  cannot  be  come  at  by  Law  to  Pay  their  juft 
Proportion  of  fuch  charge,  then  their  inclofed  Lands,  (hall  (land  chargeable  therewith 
until  it  is  paid.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


C^enm0  lo  tiic  3^unu  171 5. 

A  Copy  of  the  Sermon,  Preached  by  the  Reverend  Mr.  Jeremiah  Shepard  on  the 
■*•  ^  laft  day  of  the  Eleftion  of  Councellors,  laid  before  the  Houfe  by  the  Commit- 
tee appointed  to  procure  the  fame. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  William  Paine,  and  Mr.  Cooke  be  a  Committee,  to  agree  for 
the  Printing  thereof,  at  the  moft  reafonable  Rate  they  can,  and  to  Referve  One  of  the 
Books  for  each  of  the  Members  of  this  Court,  and  of  the  Minifters  of  the  feveral 
Towns,  and  to  prefent  the  Author  with  Thirty. 

A  Petition  of  Thomas  Fitch,  Oliver  Noyes,  Nathanael  Cary,  Charles  Chambers,  and 
Samuel  Greenwood,  a  Committee  appointed  by  this  Court,  to  provide  Sundry  neceflfa- 
ries  for  the  Train  of  Artillery,  &c.  DireAed  by  Her  late  Majefty,  to  be  here  pro- 
vided, for  the  Expedition  againft  Canada,  Anno  1711.  And  for  the  Sums  they 
advanced  in  that  Service,  They  received  Bills  of  Exchange  Drawn  by  His  Excellency 

the 


[20] 

the  Governour,  upon  the  Lord  High  Treafurer  of  Great  Britain,  none  of  which  nor 
any  part  of  the  faid  Bills  have  been  yet  paid.  And  the  Petitioners  had  the  Loan  of 
3812  /.  8  J.  ']  d.  Granted  to  them  in  Bills  of  Publick  Credit  out  of  the  Publick 
Treafury ;  in  confideration  of  their  being  in  Advance  in,  and  for  that  Service,  and 
which  they  are  oblig'd  to  Pay  into  the  Treafury  in  July  next ;  prefented  to  the  Houfe 
&  Read,  pray  the  continuance  of  the  faid  Loan  for  One  Year  more. 

Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  the  faid  Petition  be  granted. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Nathanael  Henchman  of  Bq/ion  Merchant,  prefented  to  the  Houfe 
and  Read,  fliewing.  That  he  Received  of  the  Ten  Thoufand  pounds  Loan  of  Prov- 
ince Bills,  Anno  171 1.  the  Sum  of  Fourteen  Hundred  pounds,  which  he  difburfed  to 
pay  off  Tranfports,  that  were  taken  up  on  Her  Majefty's  Accompt  in  the  Expedition 
to  Canada,  Anno  171 1.  and  took  Bills  of  Exchange  on  the  Lord  High  Treafurer  of 
Great  Britain  for  the  fame,  to  the  Sum  of  996  /.  \%  s.  8  d.  Sterling,  payable  at  30  days 
fight :  But  no  part  of  the  faid  Bills  is  yet  paid,  and  praying  the  continuation  of  the 
Loan  of  the  faid  Fourteen  Hundred  pounds  for  One  Year  more. 

Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  Granted.  Sent  up  for  Con- 
currence. 

A  Petition  of  T'homas  Patch  and  Four  more  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Wenham^ 
prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  Complaining  that  thofe  who  were  Sele<fl-men  of  the 
faid  Town  the  laft  Year,  did  in  an  unjuft  manner  Draw  Money  out  of  the  Treafury 
of  the  faid  Town,  &  praying  this  Court  to  take  Cognizance  of,  &  Redrefs  the  wrong. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners  forth-with  Serve  Samuel  Kemball,  yohn  Porter, 
William  Rogers  and  Caleb  Kemball,  who  were  Sele£l-men  of  Wenham  the  laft  Year, 
and  Samuel  Porter,  that  was  then  Conftable,  with  a  Copy  of  this  Petition,  and  direc- 
tion to  appear  before  this  Court  on  Friday  the  17/A  Currant,  to  anfwer  the  Com- 
plaint thereof.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Francis  Allen  of  the  Town  of  Kittery,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and 
Read,  Shewing  that  before  Berwick  was  fet  off,  a  Separate  Townfhip  from  the  Town 
of  Kittery,  he  agreed  with  Kittery  for  Twelve  pounds  per  Year,  to  Maintain  'Thomas 
Tounglove  a  blind  impotent  Man  of  that  Town  ;  but  that  fince  Berwick  has  been  made 
a  Separate  Townfhip,  Kittery  Refufes  to  pay  him  :  And  that  he  can  obtain  no 
Remedy  by  the  Law,  the  Juftices  of  the  Inferiour  Court  being  Inhabitants  of 
Kittery;  praying  Remedy  from  this  Court.  Committed. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  for  the  Reviving  &  Continuing  an  AEl  for  the  Raijing  an 
Exci/e  upon  Wines,  Liquors,  ana  other  Strong  Drink,  Sold  by  Retail.     Read  a  2d  time. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A3i  for  the  more  convenient  &"  equal  Raijing  of  Money  for 
Defreying  of  the  charges  arijing  in  each  refpeElive  County,  within  this  Province.  Read  a 
ad  time. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  for  Reviving  ^further  Continuing  feveral  Rates  (d  Duties 
oflmpofi  £5?  Tunnage  of  Shipping,  &c.     Read  a  2d.  time. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A^  for  the  better  Pre/erving,  Increafing  &'  Securing  Naval 
Stores,  particularly.  Tar,  Turpentine  ^  Rozin,  within  this  Province.     Read  a  2d  time. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board,  That  Mr.  Speaker  &  the  Houfe  now  come  up  to  the 
Council  Chamber  to  attend  the  Hearing  appointed  this  Day,  upon  the  Petition  of 
the  Southwefterly  Precindt  in  the  Town  of  Ip/wich. 

Which  was  forth-with  done  &  the  Hearing  being  finifhed,  Mr.  Speaker  and  the 
Houfe  returned  to  their  own  Chamber. 

Poll  JEerttitem. 

A  Petition  of  Sundry  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Dorchejler,  living  Weftward  of 
Milton,  including  Puncapaog  Plantation,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying, 
That  they  may  be  Conftituted  a  Townftiip,  for  the  better  Support  of  the  Gofpel 
Miniftry  according  to   the  Bounds  they  mention,  i^c. 

And  the  Queftion  being  put.  Whether  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  Granted  ? 
It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative.  The 


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The  Petition  of  Francis  Allen,  praying  as  entred  this  Day,  further  confidercd,  & 
the    Report  of  the   Committee  thereon,  which   was  accepted  by  the  Houfe,  &  ac 
cordingly. 

Ordered,  That  the  Town  of  Berwick  pay  the  fame  Proportion  of  the  Twelve 
pounds  mentioned  in  the  Petition,  during  the  time  of  the  Impotent  Man's  neceflities. 
That  they  paid  in  the  laft  Town-Rates,  when  they  were  part  of  the  Town  of  Kittery. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  IVilliam  Dudley,  in  behalf  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Town  of 
Rutland,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying.  That  the  Plat  they  formerly  laid 
before  this  Court  to  be  confirmed  as  the  laying  out  of  the  faid  Townftiip,  may  be  now 
confirmed,  for  Reafons  therein  mentioned.         Committed. 

A  Plat  of  143  Acres  of  Land,  laid  out  by  John  Gardner  Surveyor,  imployed  by 
John  Higgin/on  Efq  ;  as  part  of  his  Right  of  460  Acres,  the  faid  Surveyor,  and  thofe 
that  carried  the  chain  in  Meafuring  the  Land  being  Sworn ;  prefented  to  the  Houfe 
for  Approbation  :   And  the  following  Vote  pafs'd  thereon,  viz. 

This  Plat  laid  before  the  Houfe  and  Infpedled  by  them. 

Ordered,  That  the  Land,  therein    Defcribed  &    Platted,  be  confirmed    to    John 
Higgin/on  Efq  ;  provided.  It  doth  not  Intrench  on  any  former  Grant. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

An  Accompt  of  Robert  Ellis  Surgeon  his  Adminiftration  to  Serjeant  Daniel  Tucker, 
for  the  cure  of  a  Gun-fhot  Wound  in  his  Body,  which  he  received  in  the  Service 
againft  the  Indian  Enemy,  Anno  171 1.  from  Aug.  16.  1713.  to  May  i^th  1715.  further 
confidered,  and 

Re/olved,  That  the  Sum  of  Thirty-five  pounds  be  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  Pub- 
lick.  Treafury  to  Dr.  Robert  Ellis  the  Accomptant,  for  his  Service,  6ff.  mentioned  in 
his  Bill.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  John  Campbell,  praying,  That  he  may  be  Allowed  the  Sum  of  35  /. 
2  s.  ;^  d.  due  for  the  Portage  of  Publick  Letters.  Sent  down  from  the  Board  having 
been  Read  there.  Read  and  Committed. 

And  a  Reprefentation  of  the  faid  John  Campbell,  fhewing  Reafons  to  Induce  the 
Publick  to  affift  him  in  the  Printing  his  Weekly  News-Letter.     Read  &  Committed. 

Ordered,  That  Col.  IVinthrop,  Mr.  William  Paine,  and  Mr.  Jonathan  Remington, 
be  a  Committee  to  prepare  and  lay  before  the  Houfe  a  Draught  of  a  Bill,  to  lay  the 
like  Duty  on  the  Trade  of  the  Province  of  New- H amp/hire,  to  this  Province,  that  the 
Government  there  have  laid  upon  the  Trade  of  this  Province. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board,  That  Mr.  Speaker  and  the  Houfe,  now  come  up  to 
the  Council  Chamber,  to  attend  a  Hearing  upon  the  Petition  of  Jofeph  Brown,  and 
Others,  Inhabitants  of  the  Eaft  and  Weft  Precindls  in  the  Town  of  Newbury ;  which 
was  forth-with  done,  and  the  Hearing  being  finifh'd,  Mr.  Speaker  and  the  Houfe 
return'd  to  their  own  Chamber. 

A  Petition  of  George  Momeu/que  Indian,  praying.  That  he  may  have  Liberty  to 
Sell  a  Traft  of  Land  belonging  to  him,  which  adjoyns  to  the  Southern  Line  of  the 
Town  of  JVorcefter.  And  a  Petition  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Worcejler, 
praying.  That  they  may  have  Liberty  to  Purchafe  the  faid  Land  of  the  faid  Indian. 
Were  both  feverally  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 

j&abbati  II  tiie  '^wxCxx  1715. 

A  Petition  of  John  Higgin/on  jun.  and  Nathanael  Higgin/on  of  Salem,  prefented  to 
"*  ^  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying,  That  they  may  be  Allowed  to  lay  out  a  New 
Farm  of  Seven  Hundred  Acres,  formerly  Granted  to  the  Reverend  Mr.  John  Higgin- 
/on,  and  laid  out  by  a  Pond  called  Haverhill  Bound  Pond,  the  Marks  then  made  being 
moftly  Eflfac'd,  and  not  to  be  found.  "  Ordered, 

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Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  granted,  and  that  the  Plat  be  taken  by 
a  fkilful  Surveyor,  and  Chain-men  under  Oath,  (to  be  fo  certified  thereon)  and 
return'd  to  this  Court  for  confirmation.     Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Mr.  Seth  Sweet/or,  who  was  Imployed  as  the  Meffenger  of  the  Houfe,  made 
Return,  That  he  had  Summoned  Mr.  Juftice  Woodbridge,  and  Under-SherifF  Coker, 
to  appear  before  the  Houfe,  &  produc'd  a  Letter  from  Mr.  Woodbridge,  to  Mr. 
Speaker  and  the  Houfe,  which  was  Read,  excufing  his  not  appearing  by  Reafon  of  his 
own  and  his  Families  Sicknefs ;  and  intreating  that  his  Error  in  Iffuing  forth  a 
Writt  againft  Capt.  Stevens  may  be  Over-look' d,  inafmuch  as  he  was  Ignorant  of  his 
being  a  Member  of  this  Honourable  Houfe. 

Mr.  Under-Sheriff  Coker  appear'd  before  the  Houfe  and  begg'd  pardon  of  the 
Houfe  for  his  Error  &  Offence,  in  Serving  a  Writ  upon  Capt.  Stevens,  One  of  the 
Honourable  Members  thereof:  And  affirm'd  that  he  knew  him  not  to  be  a  Repre- 
fentative,  when  he  Served  the  Writ. 

Mr.  Coker  was  Ordered  to  with-draw  a  while. 

It  not  appearing  to  the  Houfe,  That  Mr.  Under-SherifF  Coker,  did  know  that 
Capt.  Stevens  was  a  Member  of  this  Houfe  when  he  Arrefted  him. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Mr.  Coker  be  difmifs'd.  Mr.  Coker  was  accordingly  call'd 
in  and  difmifs'd. 

A  further  Report  of  Stephen  Frances,  Joftah  Conver/e,  and  John  Ware,  a  Commit- 
tee fent  by  this  Court  in  June  1701.  to  Settle  the  Line  between  the  Town  o(  Sherborn 
and  Framingham ;  and  to  Determine  who  fhould  bear  the  charge :  Having  formerly 
made  Report  as  to  the  Line,  now  Determine  as  to  the  charge  of  the  Committee, 
That  one  third  part  thereof  be  paid  by  the  Town  of  Sherborn,  the  Other  two  thirds 
by  the  Town  of  Framingham,  each  of  the  Committee  having  been  Seven  days  upon 
that  Service. 

Ordered,   That  the  faid  Report  be  Accepted,  and  that  the  faid  Committee  be  paid 
accordingly  Four  Shillings  -per  day  to  each  of  them  for  the  time  of  their  Service. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  Monday  next  Three  a  Clock  afternoon. 


Eunae  13  tiie  3unti  1715. 

'T^He  Bill  Intituled,  An  A51  for  the  better  Pre/erving,  Increaftng  &  Securing  Naval 
■'■       Stores,  particularly.  Tar,  Turpentine  £s?  Rozin,  within  this  Province.     Read  a  3d 
time. 

Re/olved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Proprietors  of  the  Town  of  Rutland  having  Reprefented  to  this  Houfe,  that 
the  Diredion  given  by  this  Court  at  their  lafl  Seflion,  for  the  laying  out  the  faid 
Townfhip  contiguous  to  the  Town  of  Lancajler  (which  was  then  fo  Ordered  to  pre- 
ferve  a  Regular  Face  to  the  Frontiers,  and  not  leave  a  flip  of  Land  between  the  faid 
Towns  too  fmall  for  a  Townfhip)  will  remove  them  in  fome  meafure  from  the  Lands 
they  had  purchafed  of  the  Natives. 

And  having  Propos'd  and  Petition'd,  That  the  Form  &  Place  of  their  Townfhip, 
may  be  as  Difcrib'd  in  this  Plat,  which  will  help  the  faid  Inconveniences. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Proprietors  be  Direfted  to  Protrad,  and  lay  out  their 
Grant  of  Land  for  a  Townfhip,  named  as  abovefaid,  agreeable  to  the  Plat  above 
Delineated,  by  a  Surveyor  and  Chain-men  under  Oath  (to  be  fo  returned  on  the 
Plat)  Referving  &  Laying  out  for  this  Province,  One  Thoufand  Acres  of  Land,  in 
the  Angle  between  Worcejler  and  Leicejler,  in  a  figure  as  near  a  Square  as  they  can, 
and  lay  the  Plat  fo  taken  before  this  Court  for  Confirmation. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£i  for  the  more  Convenient  &  equal  Raifing  of  Money  for 
Defreying  of  the  charges  arijing  in  each  re/peSfive  County  within  this  Province. 

Read  a  3d.  time,  and  Refolved, 


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Rejolvedy  That  the  faid  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence, 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board,  that  Mr.  Speaker  and  the  Houfe  now  come  up  to  the 
Council  Chamber,  to  attend  the  Hearing  appointed  to  be  this  day,  upon  the  Petition 
o(  Jonathan  Hajlings,  between  him  &  Job  Bull;  which  was  forth-with  done.  And  the 
Parties  being  fully  heard,  with-drew;  and  Mr.  Speaker,  and  the  Houfe  Return'd  to 
their  own  Chamber. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  y/i?  of  this  Inftant  June,  refpefting  the  Setling 
of  the  Eajlern  Parts  of  this  Province:  Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there, 
viz.  In  Council  June  loth  17 15.  Read  and  Concurr'd.  And  by  His  Excellency 
the  Governour,  viz.  At  the  Defire  of  the  Council  and  Reprefentatives,  I  fhall  give 
the  Warrants  to  Draw  out  Nineteen  Men,  and  an  Enfign  from  Ca/co  Fort  for  Arrow- 
Jick.  And  fhall  alfo  raife  Fifteen  Men,  for  Brun/wick,  with  a  Commiflion  Officer  for 
the  Service  projected  ;  But  cannot  at  prefent  fee  Reafon  to  Demolifh  the  Fortifica- 
tion at  Ca/co,  until  His  Majefty's  pleafure  be  known  therein.  J.  DUDLEY. 

The  Precept  fent  to  Plymouth :  Return'd  Major  John  Bradford  chofen  their 
Reprefentative :    who  appeared. 

A  Petition  of  Jeremiah  Dummer  and  Thirty  Others,  Merchants,  6ff.  to  whom 
this  Court  Lent  of  the  Publick  Bills  of  Credit,  in  the  Year  171 1.  to  enable  them,  to 
Supply  the  Britijh  'Troops,  then  defigning  an  Expedition  againft  Canada,  for  which 
Supplies  they  received  of  the  Governour  &  Admiral  of  the  faid  Expedition  Bills  of 
Exchange  on  the  Lord  High  Treafurer  of  Great  Britain ;  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and 
Read :  Shewing,  That  as  yet  no  more  than  two  thirds  of  the  Bills  of  Exchange  are 
paid,  and  that  with  great  Difadvantage  :  Praying,  That  one  third  part  of  the  faid 
Bills  of  Credit  that  are  out-ftanding  in  their  hands,  may  be  Lent  to  them  for  One 
Year  more. 

Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  Granted;  and  that  the  Bills  out- 
ftanding  in  the  Petitioners  hands,  and  thofe  a-like  concerned  be  Lent  to  them  for  One 
Year  more.  And  that  the  Committee  that  this  Court  Imployed  to  lend  out  the 
Bills,  and  take  Security  for  the  Re-payment,  be  Reviewed  &  Impowred,  to 
Review  and  Confider  the  Bonds,  and  Security  given  for  the  fame,  as  well  thofe  on 
which  the  after  Ten  Thoufand  pounds  Loan  was  iffued,  as  thofe  which  this  Petition 
refers  to ;  and  that  fuch  of  the  bonds  wherein  any  of  the  Obligors  are  Dead, 
Removed  out  of  the  Province,  or  by  adverfe  Providence  confiderable  Impaired,  in 
Eftate,  or  wherein  the  Security  refufe  to  continue  fo,  be  Sued  out  when  due ;  unlefs 
other  and  further  fufficient  Security,  be  given  to  the  Satisfadtion  of  the  Committee, 
the  Obligors  to  pay  the  Committee  for  their  trouble.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  AEl  in  Addition  to  the  A£l  for  Granting  unto  His  Majejiy 
feveral  Rates  &"  Duties  of  Impojl,  and  Tunnage  of  Shipping.     Read  a  firft  time. 

A  Petition  of  Andrew  and  Jonathan  Belcher  of  Bojlon,  Merchants ;  prefented  to 
the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying,  That  Fourteen  Hundred  pounds  part  of  the  Sum  Lent 
to  them  in  Bills  of  Credit,  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury,  Anno  171 1.  to  Aflift  them  to 
furnifh  Stores  to  General  Hill,  and  Admiral  Walker,  for  the  Army  &  Fleet  under 
their  Command,  bound  on  the  Expedition  to  Canada :  May  be  Lent  to  them  for 
Four  Years  more  to  come,  for  Reafons  therein  Alledged. 

Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  this  Petition  be  fo  far  Granted,  That  the  faid  Four- 
teen Hundred  pounds  be  Lent  to  the  Petitioners,  for  One  Year  more. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  2d  Inftant  for  Pojl-poning  the  payment  of 
Eleven  Thoufand  pounds,  part  of  Twenty-two  Thoufand  pounds,  granted  to  be 
Levyed  this  Seflion.  Sent  down  from  the  Board  again,  pafs'd  on  there,  viz.  In 
Council  June  i^th  1715.  put  to  the  Queftion,  Whether  the  Council  do  depart  from 
their  Vote  of  Non-concurrence  within  mentioned,  on  June  ^th  Currant  ? 
Pafs'd  in  the  Negative.  Read 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 

ilfUrti0 


JEartis  14  tite  ^unii  171 5. 

'T^He  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  31  o?  May  laft,  for  Afcerting  the  Right  of  this 
•*•  Province  to  Pi/cataqua  River :  Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there, 
viz.  In  Council  jfune  i.  1715.  Read  &  Concurr'd.  And  by  His  Excellency  the 
Governour,  viz.  I  agree  to  this  Vote  and  the  Eftabliftiment  of  a  Naval  Officer  at 
Kittery,  fo  foon  as  the  Breaft-work  for  Six  Guns  Voted,  fhall  be  built,  and  the  Guns 
Mounted.  J.  DUDLEY. 

Major  John  Bradford  Returned  Reprefentative  of  the  Town  of  Plymouth,  was  fent 
up  to  the  Board  to  take  the  Oaths,  &c. 

'  I  "^His  Houfe  having  at  diverfe  times  for  feveral  Years  paft.  Voted  the  Fort  or 
■*■  Trading-Houfe  at  Ca/co  Bay,  to  be  of  little  or  no  Service  as  a  Barrier  to  our 
Frontiers,  a  Bridle  to  the  Indian  Enemy,  or  Security  to  the  Fifhery,  and  therefore  of 
no  Publick  Benefit.  And  this  Houfe  with  the  Honourable  Board  (as  by  their  Votes 
of  the  'jth  &  loth  Inftant)  having  offered  to  His  Excellency  as  their  Opinion,  That  it 
is  for  His  Majefty's  Service,  That  the  Fort  at  Ca/co  Bay  be  flighted,  and  no  longer 
continued,  and  that  a  Stone  Fort  near  Pejep/cot  Falls  be  Repaired  inftead  thereof, 
as  more  conveniently  Situated  for  Covering  the  New  intended  Settlements  and 
keeping  the  Indians,  from  their  Fifhery  in  cafe  of  a  Rupture.  And  His  Excellency 
having  fignified  under  his  Hand,  That  he  cannot  at  prefent  fee  Reafon  to  Demolifh 
the  Fortification  at  Ca/co,  until   His   Majefly's  pleafure  be  known   therein. 

And  forafmuch  as  the  Charter  Granted  to  the  Inhabitants  of  this  Province,  by 
their  late  Majefly's  King  William  and  Queen  Mary  of  Glorious  Memory,  Doth  give 
full  Power  to  the  Governour,  for  the  time  being,  at  his  pleafure  to  Demolifh  Forts 
and  Fortifications. 

Voted,  That  no  more  Money  be  drawn  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury,  for  the 
Subsifling  and  Paying  any  Officers,  or  Souldiers  at  the  Fort  at  Ca/co,  after  the  Firfl 
Day  of  September  next. 

And  that  a  Copy  of  this  Vote  be  fent  to  Mr,  Treafurer,  for  his  future  DireAion. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  William  Maccarty  Adminiftrator  of  the  Eflate  of  his  late  Father 
Florence  Maccarty  of  Bo/lon,  deceas'd,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying,^ 
that  a  Deed  of  Gift,  wherein  Jo/eph  Nowell  conveyed  his  Real  Eflate  to  his  Wife, 
which  was  forgotten  to  be  mention'd  in  the  Hearing  that  has  been  upon  Coomes  his 
Petition,  may  be  now  receiv'd,  and  have  its  confederation  in  the  Proceeding  of  this 
Court  upon  the  faid  Petition. 

The  Copy  of  the  faid  Deed,  and  Coomes,  his  anfwer  to  the  faid  Petition  of 
William  Maccarty,  Read  &  fent  up. 

The  Bill  Intituled,  An  A51  in  Addition  to  the  ASl  for  Granting  unto  His  Maje/ly 
/everal  Rates  &'  Duties  of  Impo/l,  and  T'unnage  of  Shipping.     Read  a  2d  time. 

The  Vote  of  the  Board,  upon  the  Vote  of  this  Houfe  of  the  2d  Currant,  for 
Po/l-poning  the  Raifing  of  Eleven  'Thou/and  Pounds  of  the  Tax  to  be  Levyed  this  Sef- 
lion,  entred  Yesterday,  Read  again  and  further  Confidered,  and  Debated. 

Ordered,  That  the  Houfe  Adhere  to  their  Vote  aforefaid,  as  firfl  pafTed. 
Sent  up. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Elifha  Cooke,  Mr.  Samuel  Clap,  Col.  Adam  Winthrop,  Col. 
Samuel  Thaxter,  and  Capt.  Francis  Fulham,  with  fuch  as  the  Honourable  Board  fhall 
joyn,  be  a  Committee  to  prepare  the  Draught  of  a  Bill,  for  Settling  and  Quieting  the 
Titles  of  the  Lands,  that  are  to  the  Ea/lward  of  Pi/cataqua  River,  purfuant  to  the 
Vote  of  this  Court  this  Seflion.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  William  Paine,  Col.  Samuel  Thaxter,  and  Col.  Adam  Winthrop, 
with  fuch  as  the  Honourable  Board  fhall  joyn,  be  a  Committee  to  Build  a  Light 
Houfe,  at  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour  of  Bo/lon,  purfuant  to  the  Votes  of  this 
Court. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence.  An 


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An  Engrofs'd  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£t  for  altering  the  time  for  Holding  the  Courts 
of  General  Sefftons  of  the  Peace,  and  Inferiour  Court  of  Common  Pleas  within  the  County  of 
Barnftable.  Read  and 

Rejolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Enafted.         Sent  up. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  Intituled,  An  A II  againjl  Burglary.         Read  and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  EnaAed.  Sent  up. 

A  Meffage  fent  up  to  the  Board,  Defiring  them  now  to  joyn  with  the  Houfe 
in  the  choice  of  a  Treafurer,  for  the  Province. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Deni/on,  and  Mr,  William  Parrie,  carry  up  the  Votes  of  the 
Houfe  for  a  Treafurer,  and  affift  in  Sorting  &  Numbering  them,  with  the  Votes  of 
the  Board,  and  Report  the  choice. 

The  Votes  of  the  Houfe  being  prepared  &  collected,  the  Members  afore-named 
carryed  them  up  to  the  Board,  and  Returned  that  Mr.  Jeremiah  Allen  was  chofen 
Treafurer  for  the  Year  enfuing,  by  a  Unanimous  Vote  of  both  Houfes. 

A  Meffage  fent  up  to  the  Board,  That  the  Houfe  are  now  preparing  their  Votes 
for  an  Import  Officer,  Defiring  they  will  do  the  fame. 

The  Votes  of  the  Houfe  being  prepared  &  colle(5led,  were  fent  up  by  Col.  Win- 
throp  and  Mr.  Deni/on.  Who  Return'd  &  Reported  that  Mr.  Daniel  Ruffell  was 
chofen  Import  Officer  for  the  Year  enfuing,  by  a  major  part  of  the  Voters. 

A  Meflage  fent  up  to  the  Board,  That  the  Houfe  are  now  ready  to  proceed  to  the 
choice  of  an  Attorney  General,  Defiring  them  to  joyn  in  the  choice  of  that  Officer. 

Voted,  That  the  Line  between  this  Province  and  the  Colony  of  Rhode-IJland,  as 
by  agreement  between  CommiflSoners,  for  both  Governments  met  at  Roxbury  on 
"January  igth  1710,  11.  and  begun  to  be  Inveftigated  on  the  23d  oi  April  following, 

according    to   faid   agreement    from    the    Stake    fet    up    by  Woodward    and 

Saffery,  be  finiftied.  And  the  former  Committee  for  this  Province  be  Revived  and 
fully  Impowered,  to  perfeft  faid  Line,  giving  timely  Notice  to  the  Committee  or 
Government  of  Rhode-IJland  of  the  time  and  place  of  their  Meeting;  and  upon 
their  Refufing  or  Neglefting,  The  Committee  for  this  Province  be  diredted  to 
proceed  &  perfeft  the  Line  according  to  the  aforefaid  agreement  now  on  Record. 
Sent  up   for  Concurrence. 

Ordered,  That  a  further  Meffage  be  fent  up  to  the  Board,  that  the  Houfe  are 
preparing  their  Votes,  for  an  Attorney  General,  and  Defire  they  would  joyn  with 
them  in  that  choice. 

The  Members  that  carried  up  the  faid  Meffage,  Return'd  anfwer,  That  the 
Council  faid  they  had  been  bufied  in  other  affairs,  and  had  not  yet  confidered  of 
that  Motion. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  AEt  for  the  more  fafe  keeping  the  Regijlry  of  Deeds,  and  Con- 
veyances of  Lands.         Read  a  firft  time. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  in  Addition  to  the  A  El  for  Regulating  Fees.  Read  a  ift 
time. 

The  Accompts  of  Jeremiah  Dummer  Efq;  Treafurer  of  the  County  of  Suffolk, 
for  the  Years  17 13.  &  1714-     Prefented  to  the  Houfe.         Read  and  Allowed. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
The  Accompts  of  Nathanael  Paine  Efq ;  Treafurer  of  the  County  of  Brijlol,  of 
the  Year  17 13.  &  17 14.     Prefented  to  the  Houfe.         Read  and  Allowed. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
The  Accompts  of  John  Otis  Efq ;  Treafurer  of  the  County  of  Barnjlable,  of 
the  laft  Year.     Prefented  to  the  Houfe.  Read  and  Allowed. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
The  Accompts  of  Daniel  Ruffell  Treafurer  of  the  County  of  Middle/ex,  of  the 
Years  1711,  1712,  1713.  &  1714.     Prefented  to  the  Houfe.         Read  and  Allowed. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
A  Petition  of  Peter  Roe,  John  Kent,  James  Tounglove  &  Jacob  Adams,  jun.  Select- 

G  men 


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men  of  the  Town  of  Suffield,  Shewing,  That  the  Town  are  in  great  Confufion  by 
reafon  of  Differences  about  the  choice  of  their  Town  Officers,  as  fet  forth  in  the 
Petition,  praying  Remedy  from  this  Court.  Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd 
upon  there,  wz.  In  Council  June  ii.  1715.  Read  &  Ordered,  That  the  Juftices 
of  Weft  Hampjhire,  appoint  an  extraordinary  Seffion  at  Suffield,  and  Command  a 
Town  Meeting  to  be  Summoned  there ;  and  upon  Reading  the  Papers  &  Proof 
of  the  Allegations  therein.  That  they  Eflablifli  the  Seledmen  chofen  according  to 
the  ufual  Cuftom  of  the  Town  for  Ten  Years  pall,  to  proceed  in  the  bufinefs  of  the 
Town  for  this  Year :  but  that  for  the  future  they  proceed  according  to  the  Direftion 
of  the  Law.  Sent  down  for  Concurrence. 
Read  and  not  Concurr'd,  and 
Ordered,  That  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Suffield  be  Ordered  to  Meet  the 
firft  Monday  in  July  next,  and  then  to  chufe  all  Town  Officers  to  Serve  for  the 
Remainder  of  the  Year;  and  that  the  Seledmen  of  the  laft  Year  be  Direfted  & 
Impowered  to  give  the  Inhabitants  Notice  to  Convene  together  according  to  the 
Order  of  this  Court.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board,  That  they  are  ftill  of  Opinion,  That  the  half  of  the 
Tax  Granted  to  be  Levied  this  Seffion  can't  be  Poji-pond,  fmce  it  is  fo  Granted  by 
an  Adt  of  this  Court,  under  the  Seal  of  the  Province,  and  fo  return'd  to  Whitehall ; 
and  mov'd  the  Houfe  to  proceed  to  Levy  the  whole  Tax,  except  what  Abatement 
may  be  made  upon  account  of  the  Funds  for  drawing  in  the  Bills,  exceeding  the 
Sum  of  the  Bills  out-flanding. 

The  Petition  of  John  Campbell,  Deputy  Poft- Mailer  General  of  New-England, 
praying  as  entered  the  loth  Currant,  further  confidered,  and  the  Report  of  the  Com- 
mittee thereon,  which  was  accepted  by  the  Houfe,  and  accordingly, 

Rejolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Twenty-five  pounds  three  Shillings  and  three  pence, 
be  allowed  and  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  Mr.  John  Campbell,  in  full  of 
his  Accompt  of  Poftage  of  Publick  Letters,  to  the  3d  Currant. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
A  Petition  of  Samuel  Sewall  in  the  Name  &  behalf  of  the  Truflees,  of  Gov- 
ernour  Hopkins  his  Legacy,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying.  That  leave 
may  be  given  to  the  faid  Truftees  to  Purchafe  of  the  Natick  Indians,  a  certain  Trait 
of  Land  belonging  to  them,  called  Maguncoog,  which  they  would  do  with  the  faid 
Legacy,   Defigning  to   commit   the  purchafe-confideration   to  Truflees,  to   be   Im- 
proved for  the  benefit  of  the  faid  Indians,  in  their  more  regular  Settlement,  &  civil 
Cohabitation,  &ff. 
Committed. 
The  Plat  of  Five  Hundred  Acres  of  Land,  laid  out  for  Richard  HollingfwortK s 
Grant,  which  was  accepted  &  confirm'd  the  4/A  day  of  laft  Novemb.  &  fent  up  to  the 
Board  for  Concurrence :  not  being  pafs'd  upon  there,  but  miflaid  &  not  to  be  found. 
Another  Plat  of  the  fame  Dimenfions,  prefented  to  the  Houfe,  and  the  fame 
Vote  pafs'd  thereon  as  on  the  former,  viz. 

A  Plat  of  Five  Hundred  Acres  of  Land  laid  out  by  William  Ward  Surveyor, 
offered  by  Mr.  Samuel  Prince  for  Confirmation. 

Ordered,  That  the  Plat  on  the  other  fide  be  allowed  and  confirmed  as  the  Five 
Hundred  Acres  of  Land  Granted  by  this  Court  to  Richard  Hollingfworth,  Anno  1673. 
If  that  Grant  has  not  been  laid  out  aforefaid,  and  this  Plat  does  not  Interfere  with 
any  prior  Grant.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Whereas  this  Houfe  have  Credible  Intelligence  that  His  Excellency  Col.  Elizeus  Bur- 
gefs  is  Commiffioned  by  His  Majefty  to  be  Governour  of  this  His  Majefiy's  Province,  and 
may  in  a  few  Weeks  be  Expelled  to  Arrive  here. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Speaker,  the  Reprefentatives  of  the  Town  oi  Bojlon,  and  Col. 
'Thaxter,  be  a  Committee  to  provide  a  fuitable  Place  for  His  Excellency's  prefent 
Reception,  and  Entertainment  when  he  fhall  Arrive,  and  to  Invite  him  thereto;  and 
Compliment  His  Excellency  in  the  Name  of  this  Houfe  upon  his  fafe  Arrival. 

A 


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A  Petition  of  Zebediah  Wheeler,  Richard  Whitney,  and  Stephen  Farr,  in  behalf  of 
the  Town  of  Stow,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying  this  Court  to  give 
Order  for  the  Running  and  Setting  of  the  Line  between  the  faid  Town  &  the  Town 
of  Concord,  which  the  faid  Towns  cannot  agree  in  amongft  themfelves. 

In  anfwer  to  the  faid  Petition. 

Ordered,  That  Capt.  Joftah  Conver/e,  Mr.  John  Stemes,  and  Mr.  John  Houghton, 
be  a  Committee  to  Inveftigate  &  Settle  the  Bound  Marks  between  the  Towns  of 
Stow  and  Concord  (if  the  faid  Towns  do  not  agree  therein  themfelves  by  the  laft  Day 
of  Novemb.  next)  and  make  Report  to  this  Court  of  their  doings,  and  of  their 
Opinion  by  whom  of  Right  the  charge  of  the  faid  Committee  ought  to  be  born. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


ittercurii  15  Me.^wnii  171 5. 

APropofal  of  his  Honour  the  Lieut.  Governour  Toiler,'..  Commander  of  His 
Majefty's  Caftle  William,  was  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  Moving  that 
a  Coat  and  pair  of  Breeches,  of  Fifteen  Shillings  value  lying  in  the  Publick  Stores, 
may  be  given  to  each  of  the  Inlifted  Souldiers,  at  the  faid  Caftle,  for  Reafons  therein 
Affigned. 

Ordered,  That  the  Allowance  propofed  by  his  Honour  the  Lieut.  Governour 
of  a  Coat  and  pair  of  Breeches,  to  each  One  of  the  Inlifted  Souldiers  at  Caftle 
William  be  Granted.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Petition  of  Samuel  Sewall,  praying  as  entred  Yefterday,  Read  again,  and 
the  Report  of  the  Committee  thereon,  which  was  accepted  by  the  Houfe,  & 
accordingly. 

Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  Granted,  the  Pious  Intention  pro- 
pofed therein  being  very  acceptable  to  this  Court.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

An  Account  of  the /ever  al  Dayes  that  each  of  the  Honourable  Gentlemen  of  the  Council, 
gave  their  Attendance,  to  Exercife  the  Power  of  the  Governour  fff  Council,  when  the  General 
Court  was  not  Sitting,  from  the  loth  Day  of  July  1701.  to  the  nth  Day  of  June  1702. 
which  was  from  the  Death  of  Lieut.  Governour  Stoughton,  to  the  Arrival  of  His  Excel- 
lency Governour  Dudley.         Read  and 

Refolved,  That  Five  Shillings  per  Day  be  allowed  and  Paid  out  of  the  Publick 
Treafury  for  each  Day  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Honourable  Council  attended  to  Exer- 
cife the  Power  of  the  Governour  and  Council,  as  on  the  other  fide,  to  each  One  of 
them  (or  fuch  who  legally  Reprefent  them)  the  Sum  annexed  to  their  Name;  The 
whole  Amounting  to  the  Sum  of  Two  Hundred  Thirty-five  Pounds  and  Five  Shillings. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

An  Account  of  the  /ever al  Dayes,  that  each  of  the  Honourable  Gentlemen  of  the  Council, 
gave  their  Attendance,  to  Exercife  the  Governour  &  Councils  Power,  when  the  General 
Court  was  not  Sitting,  after  the  Expiration  of  Six  Months,  from  the  Demi/e  of  ^een  ANNE, 
till  the  Arrival  of  His  Majejiys  Proclamation  for  the  Continuance  of  Officers,  viz  from 
Feb.  4//;.  to  March  21.  17 14.         Read  and 

Refolved,  That  Five  Shillings  per  Day  be  Allowed  and  Paid  out  of  the  Publick 
Treafury  for  each  Day  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Honourable  Council  Attended  to 
Exercife  the  Power  of  the  Governour  and  Council,  as  on  the  other  fide,  to  each  One 
of  them  (or  fuch  who  legally  Reprefent  them)  the  Sum  annexed  to  their  Name;  The 
whole  Amounting  to  the  Sum  of  Fifty  Eight  Pounds  and  Five  Shillings. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Bill  Intituled,  An  Ail  for  the  morefafe  keeping  the  Regijlry  of  Deeds,  and  Con- 
veyances of  Lands.         Read  a  2d  &  a  3  time. 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A 


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A  Plat  of  Three  Hundred  Acres  of  Land  laid  out  by  j^ohn  Gardner  Surveyor, 
under  Oath,  and  the  Chain-men  under  Oath,  on  yune  7th  17 15.  being  a 
Grant  formerly  made  to  Marfhal  General  Mitchel/on,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  for 
Confirmation. 

Ordered,  That  the  Plat  on  the  other  fide  be  Allowed  &  Confirmed,  as  the  Three 
Hundred  Acres  of  Land  formerly  Granted  to  Marflial  General  Edward  Mitchel/on, 
provided  it  Intrench  upon  no  prior  Grant.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Plat  of  Three  Hundred  and  Seventeen  Acres,  and  Sixty  Poles  of  Land  taken 
by  John  Gardner  Surveyor,  and  Chain-men  under  Oath,  and  offered  as  the  remaining 
Part  of  the  Right  of  John  Higginfon  Efq  ;  (the  whole  being  Four  Hundred  &  Sixty 
Acres)  prefented  to  the  Houfe  for  Allowance. 

And  the  following  Vote  pafs'd  thereon,  vix. 

This  Plat  being  laid  before  the  Houfe  and  Infpeded. 

Ordered,  That  the  Land  therein  Defcribed  and   Platted,  be  Confirmed   to   the 
Honourable  John  Higginfon  Efq;    Provided  it  Intrench  upon  no  prior  Grant. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Poll  Jttmtiieiit. 

The  Petition  of  John  Whipple  and  Mathew  Whipple,  praying  as  entred  the  firft 
Currant,  upon  which  a  Hearing  has  been  this  SefTion,  fent  down  from  the  Board, 
pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.  In  Council  June  14th  1715.  Ordered,  That  the  confidera- 
tion  of  this  Petition  be  deferr'd  till  next  October  Seffion ;  and  that  in  the  mean  time 
the  Petitioners  make  their  Application  to  the  Town  of  Ipfwich,  [for  relief  in  the 
Premi/fes^ 

Sent  down  for  Concurrence. 

Read  and  Concurr'd  with  this  amendment,  viz.  The  words  [/or  relief  in  the 
Premijfes]  to  be  left  out,  and  the  following  words  to  be  added,  viz.  And  joyn  with 
them  in  Settling  the  Partition  Line  between  them ;  That  a  further  confideration  of 
this  Petition  may  then  be  had. 

A  MeflTage  from  the  Board,  That  the  Council  have  confidered  the  Motion  of 
this  Houfe  to  proceed  to  the  choice  of  an  Attorney  General. 
And  do  not  fee  caufe  to  agree  to  it. 

Ordered,  That  Capt.  Noyes,  Mr.  Cooke,  Capt.  Chambers,  Capt.  Cawley,  Major  Brad- 
ford, Mr.  Samuel  Clap,  and  Capt.  0/good,  Go  up  to  the  Council,  and  Defire,  If  it  may 
be  that  this  Houfe  may  know  the  reafons  that  Induce  that  Honourable  Board  to 
Refufe  joyning  with  them  in  the  choice  of  that  Officer,  which  the  Houfe  efteem  to 
be  a  Privilege  belonging  to  this  Court. 

Who  Return' d.  That  they  had  Delivered  the  Meffage  but  received  no  anfwer. 

A  Draught  of  a  Letter  from  His  Excellency  the  Governour  in  the  Name  of  this 
Court,  to  the  Governours  of  the  Neighbouring  Governments,  Intimating  the  great 
Mifchief  that  may  probably  accrue  to  thefe  His  Majefty's  Provinces,  by  permitting 
the  Indian  Captives  from  Carolina,  to  be  Imported,  and  Sold  amongft  them ;  which 
is  therefore  by  a  Law  ftridlly  forbidden  in  this  Province.  Read  &  approved,  and 
fent  up  again  with  a  Meflage,  That  His  Excellency  be  defired  to  Write  to  the  faid 
Governours  that  fome  Perfons  may  be  appointed  here  to  Exchange  the  Torn  and 
Unferviceable  Bills  of  thofe  Governments. 

A  Petition  of  William  Spooner,  John  Delano,  Caleb  Black-well,  in  behalf  of  them- 
felves  and  Others  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  oi  Dartmouth,  prefented  to  the  Houfe 
and  Read,  praying  that  Twenty  Pounds  may  be  Allowed  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury 
towards  the  Maintenance  of  their  Miniller  for  this  Year,  for  Reafons  therein 
alledged. 

Refolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Twenty  Pounds  be  Allowed  and  Paid  out  of  the  Pub- 
lick  Treafury,  towards  the  Maintenance  of  the  Miniftry  in  the  Town  of  Dartmouth, 
for  the  Year  enfuing.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A 


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A  Meffage  from  the  Board,  Moving  that  the  Salary  for  the  Treafurer's  Service 
the  laft  Year  be  Granted ;  he  being  unwilling  to  be  Sworn  in  order  to  the  Service 
of  another  Year,  until  that  is  done. 

A  Petition  of  Henry  Bridgham  of  Bojion  Guardian  of  Sarah,  and  EJlher  Maccarty 
Daughters  and  Co-heirs  of  Florence  Maccarty  late  of  Bo/ion^  deceaf'd,  Inteftate,  pre- 
fented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying,  That  he  may  be  enabled  to  make  Sale  of  the 
Real  Eftate  Divided  &  Affigned  to  the  faid  Minors,  for  Reafons  therein  alledged. 
Committed. 

Ordered,  That  the  Houfe  now  proceed  to  Apportion  to  the  feveral  Towns  of  the 
Province,  the  Sums  they  are  to  Pay  in  a  Tax  of  the  Eleven  Thoufand  Pounds, 

The  Houfe  proceeded  to  Vote  the  Sum  which  each  Town  in  the  County  o{  Suffolk 
fhould  pay  in  the  Tax  afore-mentioned,  each  Town  being  confider'd,  and  their  Sum 
Voted  feparately,  Opportunity  being  firft  given  to  the  refpedlive  Reprefentatives  to 
inform  the  Houfe  of  the  State  and  Circumftances  of  their  Town,  and  wherein  they 
differ  from  what  they  were  the  laft  Year. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


jfobis  1 6  tiic  Junii  171 5, 

'TT^He  Houfe  proceeded  to  Vote  the  Sum  which  each  of  the  Towns  in  the  Coun- 
•*•       ties    of  Effex,  Middlefex,  and    Hampjkire,   fhould    pay  in   a   Tax    of   Eleven 
Thoufand  Pounds,  in  manner  as  aforefaid. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


OtntxxQ  17  tite  Junii  171$* 

A    Bill  Intituled,  An  A  SI  for  Building  and  Maintaining  a  Light-houfe  upon  the  Great 
■*^     Brewjler,  called  Beacon  IJland,  at  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour  of  BoJlon. 
Read  a  firfl  time. 
The   Petition   of  Henry  Bridgham,  praying  as  entred  the  15M  Currant,  further 
confidered,  and  the  Report  of  the  Committee  thereon,  which  was  accepted  by  the 
Houfe,  and  accordingly. 

Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  the  faid  Petition  be  Granted. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
A  Bill  Intituled,  An  AEf,  in  Addition  to  the  A  El  for  Granting  unto  His  Maje/ly 
feveral  Rates  fcj"  Duties  of  Impojl,  and  "Tunnage  of  Shipping.         Read  a  3d  time,  and 
Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
The  Houfe  proceeded  to  Vote  the  Sum  which  each  of  the  Towns  in  the  Counties 
of  Plymouth,  Barnftable,  Brijlol,  Tork,  Dukes  County,  and  Nantucket,  fhould  Pay  in  a 
Tax  of  Eleven  Thoufand  Pounds,  in  manner  as  afore  exprefTed. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board,  That  Mr.  Speaker  and  the  Houfe  do  now  come  up 
to  the  Council  Chamber,  to  attend  the  Hearing  appointed  this  Day,  upon  the  Peti- 
tion of  feveral  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Wenham. 

Which  was  forthwith  done,  and  Mr.  Speaker  and  the  Houfe  return'd  to  their 
own  Chamber. 

A  Petition  of  Wigglef worth  Sweet/er,  and  Urftlla  his  Wife  of  BoJlon,  prefented  to 
the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying.  That  a  Surveyor  may  be  appointed  to  lay  out  Three 
Hundred  Acres  of  Land  for  them,  which  this  Court  allowed  the  laft  Year,  to  be 
their  Right.  H  Ordered, 


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Ordered,  that  the  Petitioner  may  Imploy  a  fkilful  Surveyor  with  Chain-men 
under  Oath,  to  lay  out  the  faid  Three  Hundred  Acres  of  Land,  and  prefent  a  Plat 
thereof  to  this  Court  for  confirmation.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Mr.  James  T'aylor  late  Treafurer  of  this  Province,  praying.  That 
the  Sum  of  Eighty-Eight  Pounds,  Thirteen  Shillings,  and  Four  Pence,  of  the 
Province  Bills,  belonging  to  the  Treafury,  which  were  Stolen  out  of  his  Houfe  in 
the  laft  Year  of  his  Service  in  that  Office,  may  be  paid  to  him  out  of  the  Publick 
Treafury.     Sent  down  from  the  Board :      Read  and  Recommended. 

Read  &  Debated.  And  the  Queftion  being  put.  Whether  the  prayer  of  the  faid 
Petition  be  Granted  ?     It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

A  Petition  of  'Thomas  Patch,  &c.  Selectmen  of  the  Town  of  Wenham,  praying  as 
entred  the  \oth  Currant,  upon  which  there  has  been  a  Hearing  this  Day.  Sent 
down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.  In  Council  June  17.  17 15.  John 
Apfleton,  John  Higginjon,  Thomas  Noyes,  Samuel  Apfleton,  and  John  Burrill  Efqrs  ; 
Juftices  of  the  Peace  in  the  County  of  EJfex,  are  appointed  to  hold  a  fpecial  Seffion, 
in  the  Town  of  Wenham,  some  time  in  the  Month  of  July  next.  If  the  Parties  are 
not  agreed  before,  (giving  Notice  of  their  coming)  to  Hear  and  Determine  the 
Matter  in  Controverfy,  contained  in  the  Petition  and  Papers,  and  to  make  Report 
of  their  doings  therein,  to  this  Court  the  next  Seffions ;  the  Town  to  bear  the 
charge.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence. 

Read  and  Concurr'd,  the  Seffion  to  be  fome-time  in  September. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  Adi  in  Addition  to  the  A51  of  Limitation,  for  ^ieting  Pojfeffions. 
Read  a  first  time. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 

^tibati  18  tJtc  3^unii  1715- 

A  Petition  of  Ezekiel  Bull  of  Rhode-Ifland,  Shewing,  That  in  an  Adlion  againft 
"^^  Aaron  Mellifh,  which  he  brought  by  Appeal  before  the  Superiour  Court  of 
Judicature  lately  holden  at  Brijlol,  he  negledled  to  Seal  his  Reafons  of  Appeal,  and 
thereupon  his  A6tion  was  difmift,  and  he  is  left  without  Remedy  in  the  Law,  and 
praying  that  a  further  Hearing  may  be  Ordered  to  him.  Sent  down  from  the  Board, 
pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.  In  Council,  June  \6th  17 15.  Read  and  Ordered,  That  a 
Hearing  be  had  of  the  A6lion  before  the  next  Superiour  Court  to  be  holden  at 
Brijlol,  the  Petitioner  to  Serve  the  adverfe  Party  with  a  Notification,  fo  that  he  may 
have  time  to  make  his  Defence. 

Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  and  Concurr'd. 

The  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£i  for  Building  ^  Maintaining  a  Light-houfe  upon  the 
Great  Brewjler  called  Beacon  Ifland,  at  the  entrance  of  the  Harbour  of  Bofton.  Read 

a  2d  time. 

The  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£i  in  Addition  to  the  Ail  for  Granting  feveral  Rates  and 
Duties  of  Impojl,  &c.  Sent  down  from  the  Board  with  fome  Amendments,  which 
were  Read  and  Agreed  to  by  the  Houfe:   And  the  Bill  fent  up  again. 

The  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  in  Addition  to  the  ASl  of  Limitation,  for  ^ieting  of 
Pojfeffions.         Read  a  fecond  time ;  and  a  third  time. 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Plat  of  Five  Hundred  Acres  of  Land  laid  out  by  John  Chandler  Surveyor,  and 
One  of  the  Chain-men  under  Oath,  as  the  firfl  half  of  One  Thoufand  Acres  of  Land, 
Granted  to  John  Pynchon  Efq ;  deceas'd.  Anno  1659.  to  be  laid  out  in  two  Places, 
lying  near  the  Weft  Bounds  of  the  Town  of  Brookfield,  Prefented  to  the  Houfe  for 
Confirmation.         And  the  following  Vote  pafs'd  thereon,  viz. 

Ordered,  That  the  Land  Defcribed  and  Platted  on  the  other  fide,  be  Allowed  and 
Confirmed  as  the  firft  half  of  the  Grant,  made  to  John  Pynchon,  Efq ;  deceaFd,  Anno 
1659.     Provided  it  Intrench  upon  no  prior  Grant.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A 


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A  Plat  containing  the  Quantity  of  Eight  Miles  Square  of  Land  (Four  Miles 
Square,  belonging  to  the  Indians  of  Haffanamifca  being  part  thereof)  Prefented  to 
the  Houfe  for  Allowance  and  Confirmation,  by  the  Proprietors  of  the  Townfhip 
of  Sutton.     And  the  following  Vote  pafs'd  thereon,  viz. 

Ordered^  That  the  Land  Defcribed  and  Platted  on  the  other  fide,  be  Allowed, 
and  Confirmed  to  the  Proprietors  of  the  Townfhip  of  Sutton,  Provided  it  Intrench 
upon  no  former  Grant.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Petition  of  Richard  Coomes  and  Hephzibah  his  Wife,  upon  which  there  has 
been  a  Hearing  this  Seflion,  Sent  down  from  the  Board,  for  this  Houfe  to  proceed 
upon  firft.         Read  and  Committed,  and 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Cooke  be  joyned  with  the  Committee  for  Petitions  in  the 
Confideration  of  the  faid  Petition. 

The  Petition  of  Mary  Cole,  praying  as  entred  the  7/A  Inftant.  Sent  down  from 
the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.  In  Council,  June  i6.  17 15.  Read  and  Referr'd  to 
the  Superiour  Court.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  &  Concurr'd. 

Capt.  Noyes  from  the  Committee  for  Petitions,  made  Report  on  the  Petition  of 
Richard  Coomes,  which  was  accepted  by  the  Houfe,  and  accordingly. 

Voted,  That  the  Petitioners  ought  to  have  the  Equity  of  Redemption,  in  as  much 
as  the  Mortgage  made  to  Florence  Maccarty,  by  Jojeph  Newel  the  Father  of  the  Peti- 
tioners, was  not  Recorded  until  April  -jth  17 14,  by  reafon  whereof  they  were  De- 
feated of  the  benefit  of  An  Aft  Intituled,  An  A^  for  Hearing  and  Determining  of  Cafes 
in  Equity,  Made  and  pafs'd  in  the  Tenth  of  William  the  Third,  &?f. 

And  that  they  be  Impowered  to  file  a  Bill  for  their  Right,  or  Equity  of  Redemp- 
tion in  the  next  Court  or  Courts  of  Law,  proper  to  hear  the  fame. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  in  Addition  to  the  A  SI  for  EreSfing  a  Powder-houfe  in 
Bofton.     Sent  down  from  the  Board  Concurr'd,  with  fome  Amendments  ;  to  which 
they  Defire  the  Concurrence  of  this  Houfe. 
Read  &  Concurr'd,  and  Sent  up. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Cooke,  Capt.  Noyce,  and  Mr.  Epps,  Go  up  to  the  Council,  and 
Acquaint  them,  That  Whereas  this  Houfe  have  preffingly  moved  that  Honourable  Board  to 
joyn  with  them  in  the  Election  of  an  Attorney  General;  which  they  had  notfeen  cau/e  to  do. 
And  Dejired  to  be  Informed  of  the  Reafons  that  Inclined  them  to  refufe  joyning  with  the 
Houfe  in  fo  great  a  Privilege ;  but  had  not  been  favour' d  with  an  an/wer  to  that  their 
Defire.  "This  Houfe  therefore  being  flill  deftrous  to  do  all  that  is  proper  for  them  to  Pre- 
ferve  the  Privilege  of  that  choice :  Purpofe  to  Proceed  thereto  on  Monday  next,  and  Repeat 
their  Motion  to  the  Board  to  joyn  with  them  in  it. 

The  Petition  of  Jonathan  Hafiings,  praying,  as  entred  the  7/A  Currant.  Sent 
down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  on  there,  viz.     In  Council  June  18.   1715. 

Ordered,  That  a  Hearing  be  had  of  the  faid  Aftions  at  the  next  Superiour  Court 
to  be  holden  at  Cambridge,  for  the  County  oi  Middlefex ;  as  though  the  fame  properly 
lay  before  that  Court  by  Appeal :   The  Petitioner  to  give  the  adverfe  Party  timely 
Notice  thereof         Sent  down  for  Concurrence. 
Read  and  Concurr'd. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board,  Moving  the  Houfe  to  bring  forward  the  moft  necef- 
fary  bufinefs  of  the  Seflion,  that  the  Court  may  Rife.  And  to  Grant  a  Salary  to  the 
Treafurer,  for  his  laft  Years  Service :  Who  ftill  declines  being  Sworn  again  to  that 
office,  until  it  is  done.  ' 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  Monday  next  Three  a  Clock  afternoon. 


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ItvLXiM  20  tiu  luttti  171 5. 

A     Petition  of  the  Heirs  of  Mr.  John  Haynes  of  Sudbury,  praying  as  entred  the 
■^^     2d  Currant,  further  confidered,  and 
In  Anfwer  to  the  faid  Petition. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners  may  take  a  Plat  of  the  Land  mention'd  in  their 
Petition  by  a  Sworn  Skilful  Surveyor,  and  Chain-men  under  Oath,  at  their  own 
charge,  and  lay  it  before  this  Court  for  confirmation. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  feveral  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Freetown,  prefented  to  the 
Houfe  and  Read,  praying  Affiftance  towards  the  Maintaining  of  a  Miniftry  there. 

Rejolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Twenty  Pounds  Allowed  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury 
towards  the  Maintenance  of  the  Miniftry  in  the  Town  of  Freetown  the  laft  Year,  but 
not  drawn  out;  they  not  being  fupplied  with  a  Minifter. 

Be  Allowed  for  that  end  in  the  Year  Currant :  provided  they  Procure,  and  En- 
tertain a  Minifter  this  Year.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  in  Addition  to  the  ASi  for  Regulating  Fees. 
Read  a  ad  time. 

A  Meflage  fent  to  the  Board,  to  Inquire  whether  His  Excellency  had  confented 
to  the  whole  of  the  Vote  of  this  Houfe,  pafs'd  the  7M  Currant,  and  Concurr'd  too 
by  the  Board,  relating  to  the  Settling  of  the  Eajlern  Parts  of  this  Province,  excepting 
the  claufe  concerning  Ca/co  Fort? 

Anfwer  was  return' d,  That  His  Excellency  faid.  He  did  confent  to  all  but  that 
of  flighting  Cafco  Fort. 

The  Houfe  prepared  their  Votes  for  an  Attorney  General;  and  fent  them  up  to 
the  Board  by  Capt.  Noyes,  Mr.  Cooke,  and  Mr.  Remington,  with  a  Meflage  Defiring 
the  Council  to  joyn  with  the  Houfe  in  the  choice  of  that  Officer,  and  to  tender  their 
Votes  to  be  told  at  the  Board :  But  if  they  declin'd  it,  to  Acquaint  them.  That  this 
Houfe  could  not  foregoe  their  Privilege,  and  therefore  fliould  think  it  proper  to 
Examine  their  own  Votes:  And  Report  the  choice  made  by  them. 

The  faid  Members  return'd.  That  the  Board  faid,  They  had  come  to  no  Determi- 
nation in  the  affair. 

The  Houfe  proceeded  to  Examine  their  Votes,  and  it  was  found  that  "Thomas 
Newton  Efq ;  was  chofen  by  a  major  Part  of  the  Voters. 

And  the  Members  laft  named  went  up  again  to  the  Board,  and  Reported  the 
choice  which  was  made. 

The  following  Vote  fent  down  from  the  Board,  viz.  In  Council  June  10th  17 15. 
Ordered,  That  the  Honourable  William  Tailer  Efq ;  Lieut.  Governour,  Wait  Win- 
throp,  Elijha  Cooke,  Eli/ha  Hutchinfon,  Samuel  Sewall,  &  Eliakim  Hutchinfon  Efqrs.  be 
a  Committee,  with  fuch  as  the  Reprefentatives  fliall  joyn  with  them,  to  take  Order 
for  a  Place  for  the  Reception  of  the  Governour,  upon  his  Arrival,  which  is  fpeedily 
to  be  Expedted.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence.         Read. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


ittartt0  21  iic  jfunii  ly^S* 

A  Lift  of  the  Sums  which  the  feveral  Towns  of  the  Province  are  Voted  to  Pay,  in 
the  Tax  of  Eleven  Thoufand  Pounds.  Read  and 

Ordered,  That  the  feveral  Towns  Pay  the  Sums  refpe6lively  annexed  to  them,  in 
the  Subfequent  Lift  in  the  Tax  to  be  Levyed  this  Seffion,  and  that  a  Bill  be  drawn 
accordingly.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The 


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The  Bill  Intituled,  An  A 51  for  Building  &  Maintaining  a  Light-hou/e  upon  the  Great 
Brewjier  called  Beacon  Ifland,  at  the  entrance  of  the  Harbour  of  Bofton. 
Read  a  jd  time,     and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs'd  to  be  engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Richard  Peebody  of  Boxford  Guardian  to  Olive  Peebody,  a  Minor, 
prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying.  That  he  may  be  Impowered  to  make 
Sale  of  Sixty  Acres  of  Land  belonging  to  the  faid  Minor,  to  raife  Money  neceflary 
for  his  Education. 

And  the  Queftion  being  put.  Whether  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  granted  ? 
It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A5f  in  Addition  to  an  ASffor  Regulating  Fees. 
Read  a  3d  time,     and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Isaac  JVoono,  and  Joshua  Shauton,  Indians,  Agents  for  Ketteticut,  an 
Indian  Town,  praying.  That  the  faid  Town  may  be  ordered  to  lie  to  the  County  of 
Brijlol.  Be  relieved  from  fundry  Encroachments  made  upon  them  by  the  Englilh ; 
particularly,  Mr.  Mitchel.  And  have  fome  further  Powers  granted  to  them  neceffary 
in  their  Townfhip.  Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  on  there,  viz.  In  Council 
June  18/A  17 1 5.  Read  and  Referred  to  the  next  Seflions  of  this  Court  in  O£lober 
next;  and  that  Mr.  Mitchel  and  the  Seleft-men  of  Bridgewater,  be  Notified  thereof. 
Sent  down  for  Concurrence. 

The  Vote  of  the  Board  fent  down  and  entred  Yefterday  for  a  Committee  to  take 
Order  for  a  Place  for  the  Reception  of  the  Governour,  when  he  fhall  Arrive. 
Read  and 

Non-Concurr'd,  Inafmuch  as  Matters  of  charge  ought  to  Originate  in  this  Houfe. 
And  this  Houfe  have  a  Week  fince,  appointed  a  Committee  to  provide  for  His  Ex- 
cellency's Reception,  when  he  fhall  Arrive,  who  have  already  proceeded  in  the  Affair. 
Sent  up. 

A  Petition  of  Simeon  Stoddard,  and  One  Hundred  and  Eighty-Eight  Others  In- 
habitants of  the  Town  of  BoJloHy  &c.  Prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying 
this  Court  to  provide  a  Medium  of  Exchange  in  Trade,  for  want  whereof  the  Trade 
of  this  Province  is  almoft  ruin'd. 

Ordered,  That  the  Confideration  of  the  faid  Petition  be  referr'd  to  the  next 
SelTion. 

A  MefTage  from  His  Excellency,  That  if  the  Houfe  have  anything  of  neceffity 
to  be  done,  they  fhould  bring  it  forward  prefently,  for  His  Excellency  had  Deter- 
min'd  upon  a  fhort  Prorogation. 

The  Bill  Intituled,  An  A6lfor  the  more  fafe  keeping  the  Regijlry  of  Deeds,  and  Con- 
veyances of  Lands.     Sent  down  from  the  Board  Concurr'd  with  fome  Amendments ; 
which  Amendments  were  Read,  and  agreed  to  by  the  Houfe. 
And  the  Bill  fent  up. 

Ordered,  That  a  MefTage  be  fent  up  to  the  Board  by  Capt.  Noyes,  Capt.  Fulham, 
Major  Bradford,  Mr.  Lothrop,  Mr.  Par/ons,  Capt.  Ofgood,  and  Capt.  South-worth,  that 
there  are  feveral  Bills  of  Publick  Importance  and  Benefit,  that  have  fome  of  them 
pafs'd  through  both  Houfes;  others  that  have  had  Readings  in  them,  which  the 
Houfe  are  Defirous  to  Perfeft  before  they  are  Prorogu'd.  And  that  the  faid 
Members  prefent  and  leave  a  Lift  of  them  before  His  Excellency. 

But  as  this  MefTage  was  going  up  a  MefTage  came  down  from  the  Board,  That 
Mr.  Speaker  and  the  Houfe  do  now  attend  His  Excellency  in  the  Council 
Chamber. 

The  faid  Members  went  up  with  the  afore-written  MefTage,  and  particularly, 
Laid  before  His  Excellency  the  great  Importance  of  the  Bills  for  Impoft  and 
Excife. 

1  An 


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An  Engrofs'd  Bill  Intituled,  An  All  for  the  better  Pre/erving,  Increafing  and  Secur- 
ing Naval  Stores ;  Particularly y  Tar,  Turpentine,  and  Rozin,  within  this  Province. 
Read,  and 
Re/olved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Enafted. 

Ordered,  That  Worcejler  Petition  be  referr'd  to  the  next  Seflion. 

Mr.  Speaker,  and  the  Houfe  went  up  to  the  Council  Chamber,  and  His  Excel- 
lency Prorogu'd  the  Court  to  Wedne/day  the  loth  Day  of  July  next,  at  Ten  a  Clock 
in  the  fore-noon. 


^he  Representatives  returning  to  their  own  Chamber,  and  taking  into  Confideration  His 
Excellency's  Speech,  directed  to  the  Court,  before  he  Declared  the  Prorogation  :  —  Importing, 
That  it  was  almojl  a  Month  fince  the  beginning  of  the  Seffions,  and  that  they  had  done  little 
or  nothing  for  the  good  of  the  Province,  and  that  the  Hou/es  were  dijiempered,  and  therefore 
he  fhould  Raife  them  by  afhort  Prorogation,  hoping  they  would  come  together  in  a  better 
Temper :  —  Did  therefore  Unanimoufly  Agree  and  Conclude  to  Print  their  Journal  of  the 
prefent  Seffions,  and  Defired  the  Repre/entatives  of  Bofton  to  take  care  that  the  fame 
might  be  Seajonably  done;  and  the  Clerk  to  prepare  a  Copy  accordingly. 


BOSTON :  Printed  by  B.  Green.     Sold  by  Samuel  Gerrifh  at  his  Shop  on  the 
North  fide  of  King  Street,  near  the  Town  Houfe.     17 15. 


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Anno  Regni  Regis  GEO RG II  nunc  Magnae  Britanniae,^.  Primo. 

JOURNAL 


Of  the  Houfe  of 


Reprefentatives. 

At  a  Great  and  General  Court  or  Affembly  of  His  Majefty's  Province  of 
the  Maffachufetts-Bay  in  jBteto^CnglaUtl^  begun  &:  held  at  BoflOll* 
upon  Wednefday  the  25th  Day  of  ;^a?>  ^HtlO  ©OtlTini*  i  7  i  5- 
And  continued  by  Prorogation  to  Wednefday  the  20th  Day  of  July 
next  after,  and  then  Met. 


R.    Speaker,    fent   up    a    Meflage  to   the    Board,  by   Mr.  John   Stems, 
That  a  Quorum  of  the  Houfe  are  met,  and  ready  to   proceed    upon 


the  bufinefs  of  the  Sefllon. 

A  Meflage  from    His  Excellency  by  Thomas  Hutchin/on  Efq ;  That 
Mr.  Speaker  and  the  whole  Houfe  forthwith  attend  him  in  the  Council   Chamber. 

Mr.  Speaker  and  the  Houfe  went  up  accordingly,  and  His  Excellency  made  a 
Speech  to  the  Court,  whereof  Mr.  Speaker  obtain'd  a  Copy,  and  with  the  Houfe 
return'd  to  their  own  Chamber. 

His  Excellency's  Speech,  Read,  and  is  as  follows,  viz. 
GENTLEMEN 

At  the  Lajl  SeJJions  of  this  AJfemhly  I  earnejlly  recommended  to  you  the  Raifing  of 
22000I.  Granted  i£  Determined  by  two  former  Ajfemblies  of  the  Province,  for  the  Draw- 
ing in  of  that  Sum  of  the  Province  Bills,  Rai/ed  &  Emitted  for  the  Support  of  the  late  War, 
and  Troubles  with  the  Indians ;  which  faid  A6ls  of  Affembly  were  Pajfed ;  by  the  Repre- 
fentatives, and  the  Council  of  the  Province,  and  Prefented  to  the  Governour  to  be  Signd, 
y  Pafsd  by  the  Seal  in  due  manner  and  accordingly  in  that  Form,  were  fent  home,  and  are 
there  of  Record,  and  Accepted  by  the  Right  Honourable  the  Lords  of  the  Council  of  "Trade 
fsf  Plantations,  as  I  was  commanded  by  the  InJlruMions  for  the  Government,  of  which  every 
body  Concerned,  being  apprized,  I  made  no  doubt  you  would  without  any  Delay  have  Pro- 
ceeded to  Apportion,  and  Levy  it  as  thofe  A£fs  Dire6i ;  as  vlfo  the  Impoji  £3*  Excife,  which 
is  thereby  in  like  manner  Determined,  to  be  Raifed  in  Aid,  of  the  faid  Taxes  feverally ; 
Tou  are  allfenjible  how  well  &*  thriftily,  as  well  as  fuccefsfully  thofe  Sums  were  Disbur/ed, 
and  applyed  to  Defray  the  neceffary  Expenses  of  the  War,  and  with  what  Honour  your 
Bills  Pajfed  for  the  Support  of  thofe  heavy  Charges,  without  any  Difparagement :  And  its 
as  ea/y  to  fee  how  the  Credit  of  thofe  Bills,  muji  needs  Jink  ^  fail,  if  the  prefent  or  any 
future  AJfembly,Jhall  upon  any  Pretence  whatfoever,  break  in  upon  thofe  Claufes  in  the 
faid  ASis,  for  the  time  of  Payment,  which  I  am  willing  to  give  my  Opinion,  We  have  no 
Power  to  do.  Nor  if  we  had,  any  reafon  at  prefent  to  ProjeSi  it,  for  that  we  are  in  Peace, 
and  very  capable  to  Difcharge  our  Debts,  in  fuch  Proportion  as  they  are  Determined,  and 
Jince  we  have  neither  Power,  nor  need  to  delay  the  Payment,  I  am  of  Opinion  we  fhall  Dif- 
parage  the  Publick  Faith  of  the  Province,  to  that  Degree  that  our  Bills  will  fail  in  their 
Value,  to  the  very  great  Injury  of  every  Body  that  have  taken  them,  or  are  in  PoJfeJJion  of 
them;  and  in  this  we  are  jujlified  by  His  Majejiys  Mofl  Gracious  Speech  from  the  Throne, 
"  That  nothing  can  Contribute  more  to  the  Support  of  the  Credit  of  the  Nation,  than  aflri^ 
'■^  Obfervance  of  Parliamentary  Engagements.  K  / 


[36] 

I  therefore  earnejlly  Recommend  the  Confideration  of  the  Tax,  Impojl  and  Excife  to 
your  prefent  Refolves,  and  hope  you  will  make  no  Delay  but  pafs  through  them,  in  two  or 
three  Dayes,  not  admitting  of  any  other  buftnefs  this  Seffion. 

You  will  alfo  Remember,  That  the  Treafurers  Support  in  his  Office,  is  not  provided  for, 
and  others  in  Office  at  Home  or  Foreign  depending  on  your  Jujlice,  and  refpeSf  to  them  in 
fuch  manner,  as  has  been  ufual ;  which  being  done,  I  Jhall  not  further  Delay  your  own 
Buftnefs,  which  Demand  your  being  at  home. 

I  Jhall  Account  my  f elf  happy  to  fee  thefe  Affairs  well  agree  d,  and  there  Jhall  be  noth- 
ing wanting  on  my  Part  for  His  Majejlys  Service,  the  Honour  of  the  Government,  and  the 
benefit  of  all  His  Majejlies  good  SubjeSls  concern' d  herein. 

J.  DUDLEY 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  in  Addition  to  an  A£i  for  Regulating  of  Fees. 
Read  \  firft  and  a  fecond  time. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  AH  in  Addition  to  an  A£l  for  Ere6ling  a  Powder-hou/e  in 
Bofton. 

Read  a  firft  and  a  fecond  time. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A^  for  the  more  f of e  keeping  the  Regijlry  of  Deeds  ^  Convey- 
ances of  Lands.         Read  a  firft  and  a  fecond  time. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  Ait  in  Addition  to  an  Act  of  Limitation,  for  ^ieting  of  Pof- 
Jeffions.         Read  a  firft  and  a  fecond  time. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A 81  for  Building  &?  Maintaining  a  Light-houfe  upon  the  Great 
Brewjier,  called  Beacon  Ifland,  at  the  entrance  of  the  Harbour  o/"  Bofton. 
Read  a  firft  and  a  fecond  time. 

Mr.  Gerfhom  Hall  return'd  Reprefentative  of  the  Town  of  Harwich,  who  was 
not  prefent  at  the  laft  Seflion,  now  appeared.  And  made  his  Excufe  to  the  Houfe 
for  his  Abfence  the  laft  Seflion. 

Ordered,  That  his  Excufe  be  accepted,  and  that  he  go  up  to  the  Board  to  be 
qualified  by  talcing  the  Oaths,  ^c. 

Some  Letters  advifing  that  the  Cape  Sables  Indians  had  taken  fome  Fiftiing  Veffels 
belonging  to  the  Inhabitants  of  this  Province;  Sent  down  from  the  Board  &  Read. 
And  the  Governours  Orders  to  Capt.  Cayley  Commander  of  His  Majefties  Ship  the 
Rofe  Man  of  War,  to  take  on  board  &  tranfport  Col.  Edmund  Goffe,  and  Capt.  Cyprian 
Southack,  Commiflioners  appointed  to  Treat  with  the  faid  Indians,  and  know  the 
reafons  of  their  Infulting  the  Fiftiery,  and  Taking  the  Veffels,  and  Demand  their 
Reftoration;  and  to  Conciliate  and  Eftablifli  Friendftiip  with  the  faid  Indians. 
Read. 

A  Petition  oi  Archibald  Stobo,  a  Minifter  of  the  Gofpel,  lately  arriv'd  from  Caro- 
lina, Driven  from  his  Habitation  there  by  the  Hoftility  of  the  Indians,  prefented  to 
the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying  that  the  Duty  upon  Eleven  Negro  Women  and  Chil- 
dren by  him  Imported,  may  be  abated. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  Andrew  Belcher  Efq ;  That  Capt.  Southack  being  fick. 
Col.  Higgin/on  &  Col.  Goffe  are  appointed  Commiflioners  to  go  and  Treat  with  the  Cape 
Sables  Indians.  And  His  Excellency  &  Council  defire  the  Clerk  of  this  Houfe  may 
be  fpared  to  go  with  them,  and  afllft  in  that  Service,  being  acquainted  with  the 
Treaties  that  have  been  with  the  Indians. 

A  Meflage  fent  up  to  the  Board  by  Mr.  William  Paine,  That  the  Houfe  (as  his 
Excellency  in  his  Speech  to  the  Court  Direfts)  are  defirous  to  Difpatch  the  bufinefs 
of  the  Seflion  as  fpeedily  as  poffible,  &  therefore  can  by  no  means  fpare  their  Clerk. 

His  Excellency's  Speech  Read  again,  and  that  Paragraph  thereof  which  relates  to 
the  Levying  of  22000I.  this  Year,  long  debated,  and  a  Refolution  formed. 

In  Confideration  that  the  'Trade  of  this  Province,  is  greatly  Ob/lrulfed,  &"  funk  by  the 
Exportation  of  the  Coin,  and  for  want  of  a  Medium  of  Exchange,  ^c.  the  only  Medium 

now 


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nowpajfing  in  Trade,  is  the  Bills  of  Publick  Credit,  which  are  fo  far  drawn  in  already,  that 
by  reafon  thereof  the  Inhabitants  of  this  Province,  will  labour  under  great  Difficulty  to  pay 
the  Tax  of  Twenty  two  Thoufand  Pounds,  granted  to  be  raifed  this  Year  within  the 
fame.  And  Conftdering,  That  no  Damage  will  accrue  to  the  Publick,  or  to  private  Persons^ 
the  Pojfejfors  of  the  Bills  :  {this  Court  having  abundantly  fecured  the  Credit  of  the  Bills  by 
making  them  a  legal  Tender)  but  Conveniency,  and  Advantage  to  both  by  Protraliing  the 
Payment,  of  part  of  the  faid  Tax  to  a  further  Convenient  time. 

Voted,  That  Eleven  Thoufand  Pounds  only  of  the  faid  Sum,  be  Levied  and  Col- 
leded  this  prefent  Year,  and  that  the  Import  and  Excife  be  a  Fund  &  Security  for 
drawing  in  the  Sum  of  Four  Thoufand  Pounds  more  thereof. 

And  that  the  remaining  Sum  of  Seven  Thoufand  Pounds  be  Levied  at  the  Seffion 
of  this  Court  in  May,  1722,  and  paid  into  the  Treafury  by  the  lad  Day  of  December 
next  after.     Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


JoUis  21  tic  3wlu  'i^l'^s- 

A    Bill  Intituled,  An  All  for  Granting  to  His  Majejly  feveral  Rates  6f  Duties  of  Im- 
"^^     poji  ^  Tunnage  of  Shipping.         Read  a  firft  and  a  fecond  time. 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Paine,  Mr.  Remington,  Col.  Thaxter,  Mr.  Balch,  and  Capt. 
Cawley,  Go  up  to  the  Board,  and  acquaint  his  Excellency,  That  this  Houfe  defire 
to  be  Informed,  Whether  His  Excellency  has  confented  to  the  feveral  Publick  and 
Private  Bills,  pafs'd  by  both  Houses  at  the  laft  Seffion.  And  what  fteps  have  been 
fince  taken  for  the  Repair  of  the  Fort  at  Brunfwick  near  Pejepfcut  Falls?  Who  Re- 
turn'd.  That  His  Excellency  had  confented  to  the  feveral  Bills,  but  His  Excellency 
had  ftill  under  confideration  the  Vote  on  the  Petition  of  Richard  Coomes.  And  that 
nothing  was  yet  done  to  the  Repairing  of  the  Fort  at  Brunfwick. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  for  Building  l£  Maintaining  a  Light-houfe  upon  the  Great 
Brewjler  {called  Beacon  Ifland)  at  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour  ©/"Bofton. 
Read  a  third  time,  and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A51  in  Addition  to  an  A5i  for  Regulating  Fees. 
Read  a  third  time,  and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  in  Addition  to  an  A^  for  Freeing  of  a  Powder-houfe  in 
Bofton.         Read  a  third  time,  and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  AEl  in  Addition  to  an  A£l  of  Limitation,  for  ^ieting  Pojfefftons. 
Read  a  third  time,  and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  for  the  more  fafe-keeping  the  Regi/lry  of  Deeds  &"  Convey- 
ances of  Lands.         Read  a  third  time,  and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

?oil  ittcrtttem* 

The  Petition  of  Archibald  Stobo,  praying  as  entred  Yefterday.         Read  again,  and 
Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  Granted.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 
A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A £1  granting  to  his  Majejly  an  Excife  upon  Wines,  Liquors  and 
o{her  Strong  Drink,  Sold  by  Retail.  Read  a  firft  and  fecond  time. 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Whereas 


[38] 

Whereas  the  Subjeds  of  the  French  King  are  vigoroufly  carrying  on  a  very  con- 
fiderable  Settlement  at  Cape  Breton,  which  muft  neceflarily  demand  large  Supplies,  of 
Provifions,  Timber,  Plank  Boards,  Nails,  i^c.  for  the  well  efFe<aing  thereof.  And 
inafmuch  as  there  are  juft  Grounds  to  believe  that  fome  evil  Minded  Perfons,  in 
this  as  well  as  in  the  Province  oi  New-Hampjhire,  in  manifeft  contempt  of  the  Fifth 
&  Sixth  Articles  of  a  Treaty  for  a  Neutrality,  in  America,  between  England  and 
France,  made  at  Whitehall  the  6th  of  November,  1686.  wherein  it  is  Inferted,  in  the 
Fifth  Article  of  the  aforefaid  Treaty,  "  That  if  any  Ship  or  Veffel  ftiall  be  found 
"  Trading  or  Fifliing,  contrary  to  the  Tenour  of  the  aforefaid  Treaty,  the  faid  Ship 
"  or  Veffel  with  its  Loading,  proof  being  made  thereof,  fhall  be  Confifcated.  Which 
Articles  were  lately  fent  from  the  Secretary  of  State  to  this  Government,  for  their 
Obfervation  thereof,  and  Printed  &  Publifhed  here.  As  alfo  a  Proclamation 
againft  a  Commerce  &  Trade,  with  the  French  of  Canada,  Cape  Breton,  &c.  Iffued 
forth  by  Order  of  the  Governour,  with  the  Advice  of  the  Council  the  3d  Day  of 
January  laft  paft,  and  one  other  of  the  fame  Import,  on  the  29th  Day  of  March  laft 
paft,  for  the  Lucre  of  gain  have  from  time  to  time  furnifhed  the  French  at  Cape 
Breton,  with  Live  Cattel,  Pork,  Corn,  Lumber,  and  other  things,  without  which  the 
aforefaid  Settlement  would  have  been  very  much  Retarded,  if  not  wholly  Defeated. 

Wherefore  Rejolved,  That  a  Meffage  be  fent  up  to  His  Excellency  the  Governour 
to  defire  that  he  would  be  pleafed  to  Order  Capt.  Cayley  in  His  Majefty's  Ship  Rofe 
after  he  has  accompliftied  his  intended  Cruife  to  the  Eajiward,  forthwith  to  proceed 
to  Cape  Breton,  and  there  to  Cruife  as  long  as  the  Seafon  will  allow ;  to  prevent  the 
aforefaid  clandeftine  Trade,  which  will  be  of  great  Service  &  Honour  to  the  Crown: 
But  if  not  timely  done,  may  prove  very  injurious  to  this  Province,  with  refpe(5l  to 
the  Fifhery,  which  at  all  times  deferves  a  very  great  Regard.  And  that  the  Com- 
miffioner  be  Inftruded  to  proceed  to  Cape  Breton,  and  acquaint  the  Chief  Officer 
there  of  the  Infults  &  Captions,  made  by  the  Indians  &  French  amongft  the  Fifhery, 
on  the  Coaft  of  Nova  Scotia,  which  the  Indians  do  affirm  was  by  the  Inftigation  of 
the  French  at  Cape  Breton,  from  whom  they  have  received  great  Prefents ;  which  is 
a  manifeft  Breach  of  the  Peace  concluded  between  Her  late  Majefty,  and  the  Moft 
Chriftian  King;  and  that  this  Government  accordingly  reprefent  the  fame  to  His 
Majefty. 

The  Petition  of  Samuel  Sewall  Efq ;  pafs'd  upon  in  this  Houfe  the  laft  Seflion. 
Brought  down  from  the  Board,  not  having  been  pafs'd  upon  there.  Read  again, 

and  the  Vote  of  this  Houfe  thereon,  and 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Vote  be  Revived,  and  fent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Plat  of  Seven  Hundred  Acres  of  Land,  laid  out  by  John  Gardner,  Surveyor, 
and  the  Chain-men  under  Oath,  for  John  &  Nathanael  Higginfon,  purfuant  to  the 
Order  of  this  Court  at  their  laft  Seflion.     Prefented  to  the  Houfe  for  Confirmation. 

Ordered,  That  the  Land  laid  out  and  protrafted  in  the  faid  Plat  be  confirmed  as 
the  Seven  Hundred  Acres  formerly  Granted  to  the  late  Reverend  Mr.  John  Higginjon: 
provided  it  Intrench  not  upon  any  former  grant.  Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


C^enms  22  tiie  j^ulii  171 5. 

'nr^He  Precept  laft  fent  to  the  Town  of  Rochejler,  Return'd  into  the  Houfe,  and 
■*■        Mr.  Samuel  Prince  their  Reprefentative ;  who  appear'd :  And  went  up  to  the 
Board  to  be  qualified  by  taking  the  Oaths,  ^c. 

A  Letter  from  Major  John  Jencks  of  Providence,  Moving  that  the  Line  between 
this  Government  and  that  of  Rhode-IJland,  may  not  be  Settled,  according  to  the  laft 
agreement  of  the  Commiflioners  for  that  end.         Read. 

A 


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A  Report  of  Eliakitn  Hutchin/on,  &c.  the  Committee  appointed  the  laft  Year  to 
count  &  burn  unferviceable  Bills  in  the  Treafury,  Dated  January  24.  1714.  Read. 
Signifying,  That  they  had  then  counted  &  burnt  the  Sum  of  14427/.  4J.  of  the  faid 
Bills.  2589/.  9J.  gd.  thereof  being  part  of  the  40000/.  Loan  received  into  the 
Treafury,  the  remaining  11 837/.   14J.  3</.  thereof  being  fuch  as  were  Exchang'd. 

Ordered,  That  the  Treafurer  be  Difcharged  of  the  faid  Bills,  which  the  Committee 
Report  on  the  other  fide  they  have  feen  burnt  to  allies.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A   Report  of  the   Committee  laft  mentioned,    Dated    March   24.    1714   Read. 
Shewing,  That  they  then  had  counted  &  burnt  of  Bills  received 
in  exchange  /.  6000     00     o 

Of  Province  Neat  Bills  ^5638      12     i 

Receiv'd  into  the  Treafury  with  5 /^  C«»/.  advance,  is  781      18     7 


/.22410     10     8 


Ordered,  That  the  Treafurer  be  Difcharged  of  the  Bills,  which  the  Committee 
report  on  the  other  fide  they  have  feen  burnt  to  aflies.  It  being  agreeable  to  the 
Treafurers  General  Accompts,  pafs'd  by  this  Court  at  their  Seflion  in  May  laft,  fo 
far  as  relates  to  them.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  further  Report  of  the  Committee  laft  mentioned.  Dated  May  19.  17 15. 
Read.  Shewing,  That  they  had  then  counted  &  burnt,  7953/.  5J.  7^.  of  the  faid 
Bills  of  Publick  Credit,  that  were  receiv'd  in  Exchange  as  not  fit  to  pafs  any  longer. 

Ordered,  That  the  Treafurer  be  Difcharged  of  the  Bills  which  the  Committee 
report  on  the  other  fide,  they  have  feen  burnt  to  afhes.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Peter  Roe,  James  Tounglove,  John  Burbank  &  Jacob  Adams  jun. 
Seleftmen  of  the  Town  of  Suffield,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  Shewing,  That 
purfuant  to  the  Order  of  this  Court  at  their  laft  Seflion,  the  faid  Town  had  a  Meet- 
ing and  chofe  Town  Officers,  but  that  John  Aujlan,  Clerk  of  the  faid  Town  the  laft 
Year,  detain's  and  refufes  to  Deliver  the  Town  Book  to  the  Town  Clerk  chofen  for 
this  Year,  which  creates  confufion  in  the  affairs  of  the  Town.     Praying  Remedy. 

Refohed,  That  John  Aujlan  the  late  Town  Clerk  of  Suffield,  be  preremptorily 
required  to  deliver  the  Town  Books  &  Records  to  Jojeph  Winchel,  the  perfon  laft 
chofen  and  Sworn  to  be  Clerk  of  the  faid  Town,  upon  the  Penalty  of  paying  Ten 
Pounds  per  Week,  for  the  ufe  of  the  County  of  Hamp/hire,  for  every  Week  he  con- 
tinues to  detain  them,  after  the  faid  Winchel  makes  demand  thereof. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  20th  Currant  for  a  Tax  of  1 1000/.  only  to  be 
raifed  this  Year.  Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  on  there,  viz.  In  Council  July 
21.  1715.         Read  and  Non-concurr'd. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Vote  be  Infifted  on,  and  fent  up. 

A  Petition  oi Zechariah  Tuthill  Lieut.  &  Matter  Gunner,  of  His  Majefty's  Caftle 
William,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying.  That  Arrears  of  Wages  due  to 
him  may  be  paid;  as  fet  forth  in  the  Petition. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Petition  be  refcrr'd  to  the  next  Seflion  for  further 
Confideration. 

A  Petition  of  Mary  Haddrell,  and  Magdalene  Beauchamp,  lately  arrived  from 
Carolina,  being  driven  from  their  Livings  there  by  the  Incurfions  of  the  Indians, 
prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying.  That  the  Duty  on  Eight  Negro  Slaves 
belonging  to  them  here  Imported,  may  be  abated. 

Refohed,  That  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  be  granted.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  John  Higgin/on,  Andrew  Belcher,  John  Cujhing,  and 
Addington  Davenport  Efqrs ;  Moving,  That  in  the  Bill  for  the  Ere<5ling  &  Maintain- 
ing a  Light-houfe,  i£c.  the  Veflels  belonging  to  the  Province  of  New-Hampjhire,  may 
be  inferted  among  thofe  that  are  to  be  accounted  Coafters. 

The  Queftion  being  put,  Whether  the  Houfe  agree  to  thejaid  Amendment? 

It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative.  L  A 


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A  Meffage  was  fent  up  to  the  Board  to  acquaint  them  with  the  faid  Vote. 

A  Petition  of  James  Minot,  and  Sixty  feven  others,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and 
Read,  praying,  That  a  Traft  of  Land  of  Eight  Miles  fquare,  lying  on  the  Wefterly 
and  Northerly  fides  of  Brookfield,  may  be  granted  to  them  and  made  a  Townfhip,  and 
that  they  may  have  leave  to  purchafe  the  Indian  Title  thereof. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Petition  be  referr'd  to  the  next  Seflion,  for  further 
confideration. 

foil  iEeribieitt. 

Whereas  this  Court  have  ordered  the  Calling  in  &"  Exchanging  of  fever  al  of  the  Denomi- 
nations of  the  Bills  0/  Pub  lick  Credit  on  this  Province ;  and  many  of  the  Bills  that  are  paid 
into  the  "Treafury  are  'Torn  &'  Defac'd  which  can  be  of  no  ufe,  but  fome  hazard  to  lodge  long 
in  the  Treafury. 

Ordered,  That  the  Reprefentatives  of  the  Town  of  Bo/ion,  Capt.  Chambers,  &  Mr. 
Denifon  with  fuch  as  the  Honourable  Board  fhall  Nominate,  be  a  Committee,  at  any 
time  (between  this  Seflion  &  the  Seffion  of  this  Court  in  May  next)  when  the 
Treafurer  fhall  have  Two  Thou/and  Pounds,  or  more  of  Bills  in  the  Treafury,  that 
are  received  in  Exchange,  as  aforefaid,  or  otherwife  defac'd,  and  unfit  for  ufe,  at  his 
application  to  them,  to  take  an  account  of  the  Number  of  each  of  the  forts  of  the 
faid  Bills,  and  the  Sum  the  whole  amounts  to,  and  give  the  Treafurer  Receipt  for 
them  ;  and  burn  the  faid  Bills  to  aflies,  and  make  report  of  their  doings  to  this 
Court,  as  often  as  there  fliall  be  opportunity,  whofe  Receipt  fhall  be  a  Difcharge  to 
the  Treafurer  equal  to  what  the  faid  Bills  would  have  been,  if  they  had  continued 
in  his  hands.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  oi  Amos  Merrel  of  Bojion,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  praying, 
That  the  Taile  upon  the  Land  defcended  to  him  from  his  late  Father  Jeremy  Merrel, 
may  be  cut  oflFfor  reafons  therein  mentioned. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Petition  be  Referr'd  to  the  next  Seflion,  for  further 
confideration. 

A  Petition  of  William  Manley  Sen.  and  fifteen  others.  Inhabitants  of  the  Tra6t 
of  Land  commonly  called  Taunton  North  Purchafe;  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read, 
praying.  That  they  may  be  form'd  into  a  Townfhip,  for  reafons  therein  mentioned. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Petition  be  Referr'd  to  the  next  Seflion,  for  further 
confideration. 

Refolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Five  Hundred  Pounds  be  allowed  and  paid  out  of  the 
Publick  Treafury,  to  the  Committee  appointed  by  this  Court,  to  Ered:  a  Light- 
houfe  on  Beacon  Ifland  2A  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour  oi  Bojion,  purfuant  to  an  A6t 
of  this  Court,  for  a  prefent  supply  towards  carrying  on  of  that  affair,  who  are  to 
keep,  and  render  fair  Accompts  of  their  Disburfing  thereof  to  this  Court. 

And  the  faid  Committee  are  hereby  Impowred  to  Treat  with  the  Owners  of  the 
faid  Ifland,  and  purchafe  it  of  them,  for  the  faid  Service. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  ASi  for  EJiabliJhing  a  Rule  for  the  Apportioning  of  Town  6? 
County  AJfeJfments,  for  the  Year  Seventeen  Hundred  &  fifteen.  Read  a  fecond  & 
a  third  time. 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  20.  Currant  for  the  Raifing  of  a  Tax  of 
1 1000/.  only  this  Year :  Sent  down  again  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there,  viz. 
In  Council  July  22.  17 15.  put  to  the  Vote  whether  the  Board  do  Infift  on  their 
Vote  of  Non-concurrence,  within-mentioned,  on  the  21  July  Currant?  Pafs'd  in  the 
Affirmative. 

For  that  the  Grant  of  Twenty  Two  Thoufand  Pounds  mentioned  in  the  Intro- 
dudlion,  to  the  Vote  of  the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives,  cannot  juflly  be  taken  away, 
altered,  or  abated  by  this  Court. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 

A 


j^abbati  23  tjte  ^uJii  171 5. 

A  Petition  of  Jqfeph  Lord  Paftor  of  the  Church  at  Dorchejler  in  South  Carolina^ 
■^  ^  praying,  That  an  Indian  Girl  his  Servant  attending  upon  Two  of  his  Children, 
whom  he  has  fent  to  this  Province  to  avoid  the  Danger  of  the  Indian  Enemy,  may 
be  allowed  to  be  Imported  &  Remain  here  for  that  Service,  the  Law  of  the  Province 
to  the  contrary  notwithftanding.  Sent  down  from  the  Board  pafs'd  upon  there, 
viz.  In  Council  July  20th.  17 15.  Read  &  Ordered,  That  the  prayer  of  this  Peti- 
tion be  granted,  provided  the  Petitioner  engage,  to  Tranfport  the  Indian  Girl,  when 
his  Family  go  from  hence;  and  that  he  do  not  make  Merchandize  of  her  in  the 
mean  time.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  &  Concurr'd. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  20th  currant  for  a  Tax  of  iiooo/.  only  to  be 
Raifed  this  Year,  and  the  laft  Vote  of  the  Board  thereon  entred  yefterday  further 
confidered,  and 

Ordered,  That  the  Vote  of  the  Houfe  be  adhered  to,  and  fent  up. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill,  Intituled,  An  AEl  for  Granting  to  His  Majejly  Jeveral  Rates  &f 
Duties  of  Impojl  ^  Tonnage  of  Shipping.         Read  and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Ena6ted. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill,  Intituled,  An  All  for  Building  ^  Maintaining  a  Light-houfe 
upon  the  Great  Brew/ler,  called  Beacon-Ifland,  at  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour  in  Bofton. 
Read  and 

Rejolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Enaded. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill,  Intituled,  An  A£l  Granting  to  His  Majejly  an  Excife  upon  fVineSy 
Liquors,  (^  other  Strong  Drink,  Sold  by  Retail.         Read  and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Enafted. 

A  Plat  of  One  thoufand  Acres  of  Land  lying  ten  Miles,  South-weftward  of 
Wachujett-Hill,  laid  out  feveral  Years  fince  by  John  Haynes,  Surveyor,  purfuant  to 
a  Grant  made  Anno  1681.  to  the  Six  Youngeft  Children  of  Major  Simon  JVillard,  and 
now  renewed  by  John  Haynes,  Surveyor,  Son  of  the  faid  John  Haynes;  prefented  to 
the  Houfe  by  Samuel  Sewall  Efq ;  for  confirmation.  And  the  following  Vote  pafs'd 
thereon  :  viz. 

Ordered,  That  the  Land  contained  in  the  Plat  above  Delineated,  be  allowed  and 
confirmed  to  be  the  Thoufand  Acres  granted  to  the  Six  Youngeft  Children  of  Major 
Simon  Willard  in  the  Year  1681.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Draught  of  a  Stone  Fort  propofed  to  be  EreAed  at  Pejepfcut  Falls  in  Brun/wick, 
&  a  computation  of  the  Coft,  fent  down  from  the  Board,  &  InfpeAed  &  Confidered. 

It  appearing  to  this  Houfe  by  the  Proje6tion  &  Computation  laid  before  them, 
that  the  Building  of  a  Stone  Fort  at  Brunfwick,  near  Pejepfcut  Falls,  will  be  attended 
with  a  great  &  unneceffary  charge,  and  require  a  confiderable  time  before  it  can  be 
compleated. 

Voted,  That  the  Fort  to  be  built  there  be  made  of  Logs  or  Timber,  not  exceed- 
ing the  Dimenfions  of  Fifty  Feet  Square;  and  that  Col.  John  Wheelwright,  Capt. 
Lewis  Bane,  and  Charles  Frojl  Efq;  who  built  the  Fort  at  Winter  Harbour,  be  a 
Committee  to  build  the  faid  Fort,  with  as  much  Expedition  as  may  be ;  that  the 
Stores  at  Cajco-Fort,  fo  far  as  needful,  may  be  removed  thither:  which  we  are  In- 
formed are  too  much  expofed  to  the  Indians,  through  the  decay'd  State  of  that  Fort. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

An  Accompt  of  Jofeph  Jencks  jun.  his  charge  in  building  the  Great  Bridge  over 
Pautucket  River,  amounting  to  the  Sum  of  223/.  14J.  iid.  Read,  with  a  Letter  from 
Mr.  Richard  Ward,  Secretary  of  the  Colony  of  Rhode  IJland,  Moving  this  Govern- 
ment to  pay  one  half  of  the  faid  Sum. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Accompt  be  Referr'd  to  the  next  Seffion,  for  further 
confideration. 

Ordered,  That  fuch  Petitions  as  were  the  laft  Seflion  referr'd  to  this,  and  have 
not  now  been  confidered,  be  referr'd  to  the  next  Seffion.  The 


[+2] 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  this  Day  for  a  Wooden  Fort  to  be  built  at  Brunf- 
wick;  Sent  down  again  from  the  Board  with  a  Meflage,  That  they  are  of  Opinion, 
fince  there  is  a  Stone  Fort  there  that  may  be  repaired,  It  is  better  to  be  proceeded 
in  than  that  a  New  one  ihould  be  built  with  Wood,  and  therefore  the  Board  had  not 
Concurr'd  with  the  faid  Vote. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  Intituled,  An  A5t  for  ejlablijhing  a  Rule  for  the  Apportioning  of 
Town  i£  County  AJfeJfments  for  the  Tear  Seventeen  Hundred  £5?  Fifteen.         Read  and 

Re/ohed,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Enafted. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  Addington  Davenport,  and  Edmund  ^in/ey  Efqrs  ; 
That  His  Excellency  and  Council,  have  pitch'd  upon  the  Clerk,  of  this  Houfe  for 
a  Commiffioner  to  proceed  to  Cape  Sables  to  Treat  with  the  Indians  there,  and  defire 
the  confent  of  the  Houfe  that  he  may  attend  that  Service. 

The  Queftion  being  put,  Whether  the  Houfe  confent  to  the  faid  Motion  from  the 
Board?     It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

A  Meflage  fent  up  to  acquaint  His  Excellency  &  the  Board  with  the  faid  Vote. 

;And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  Monday  next  Three  a  Clock  in  the  afternoon. 


JLwxAt  25  tik  31ulu  1715- 

A  Memorial  o(  Andrew  Belcher  Efq  ;  at  the  defire  and  in  he\\a.\?  of  Samuel  Pal/ltridge 
Efq ;  Moving,  That  liberty  may  be  granted  to  thofe  that  had  Boxed  Pine 
Trees  to  draw  Turpentine  in  the  County  of  Hampjhire,  before  the  Ad;  pafs'd  the  lafl; 
Sefljon  did  prohibit  it,  may  be  allowed  to  draw  the  Turpentine  from  them  this 
Summer,  paying  fuch  acknowledgment  as  this  Court  fhall  fee  meet  to  Order,  brought 
down  from  the  Board,  having  been  there  Read,  and  Recommended.         Read. 

And  the  Quefliion  being  put,  Whether  the  Requejl  of  the  faid  Memorial  he  granted? 
It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  Andrew  Belcher,  Ifaac  Winflow,  &  John  Pynchon 
Efqrs ;  That  His  Excellency  &  Council,  have  found  no  proper  Perfon,  befides  Col. 
Goffe,  that  they  can  prevail  with  to  proceed  as  Commiflioner,  to  Treat  with  the  Cape 
Sable  Indians,  and  that  they  apprehend  His  Majefl:y's  Subje(5ls  in  their  hands  are  in 
danger  of  Suffering  by  them.  Defiring  the  Advice  of  the  Houfe  in  the  affair.  And 
left  two  Affidavits  of  fuch  Perfons  as  have  lately  been  in  the  hands  of  the  faid 
Indians,   which  were  Read: 

And  a  Petition  of  Jotham  Odiorn  in  behalf  of  himfelf,  and  William  Pepperell  Efq ; 
of  Kittery,  Shewing,  That  the  Indians  at  Cape  Sables  have  taken  two  Fifhing  Sloops 
and  a  Shallop  belonging  to  the  faid  Pepperell,  and  two  Fifhing  Sloops  of  the  faid 
Odiorn's :  praying.  That  they  may  have  liberty  to  fend  and  Ranfom  their  Veflels,  and 
bring  home  Eleven  Men  now  in  the  hands  of  the  faid  Indians :  And  that  a  fuitable 
Number  of  Men  may  be  allowed  to  go  with  them,  for  that  end  in  fuch  Veflel  as  this 
Court  Ihall  Order.  Read  and 

Ordered,  That  the  Petition  be  Rejefted ;  the  Petitioner  Odiorn  being  an  Inhab- 
itant of  the  Province  of  New-Hampjhire ;  it  is  proper  for  him  to  apply  there. 

Ordered,  That  a  Meflage  be  fent  up  to  His  Excellency  the  Governour,  earneftly 
moving,  That  the  Requefl;  of  this  Houfe  of  the  21ft.  currant  agreed  to  by  the  Coun- 
cil, for  the  Guard-fliip  to  proceed  to  Cape  Breton,  &c.  when  fhe  had  finifhed  her 
Intended  Cruife,  may  be  anfwered. 

That  if  it  be  Sufpe(5led,  That  any  of  the  Englifh  have  Injured,  or  Defrauded  any 
of  the  Indians,  that  it  may  be  inquired  into  and  Jufl;ice  done  to  the  Indians,  That 
no  proper  means  may  be  neglefted  to  prevent  the  great  Calamity  of  a  War  returning 
upon  us. 

That  His  Excellency  will  pleafe  to  give  Inftruftion  to  the  Captain  of  the  Man 
of  War,  to  Reprefent  to  the  Commander  in  Chief  at  Cape  Breton,  That  the  French  are 

Fifliing 


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Fifhing  to  the  Weftward  of  the  Gut  of  Canfo,  which  is  contrary  to  the  late  Treaty 
of  Peace. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board,  That  His  Excellency  did  agree  to  the  Meffage  laft 
fent  to  him  from   the   Houfe. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  John  Clark,  Thomas  Fitch,  and  Edmund  ^infey  Efqrs; 
That  the  Man  of  War  is  delay'd  Sailing  on  her  Cruife  Eaftward  by  nothing  but  the 
wanting  of  another  Commiflioner,  in  which  they  fhould  be  glad  of  the  advice  of  this 
Houfe. 

A  Meflage  fent  up  to  the  Board  by  Capt.  Noyes  &  Col.  Thaxter,  That  the  Houfe 
is  of  Opinion,  That  Mr.  John  Nelfon  is  a  Perfon  very  proper  for  that  Service. 

Who  Return'd,  That  Mr.  Nelfon  could  not  be  obtain'd  for  that  Service, 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  Addington  Davenport  and  John  Pynchon  Efqrs  ;  De- 
firing,  Mr.  IVilliam  Paine  a  Member  of  this  Houfe,  to  undertake  the  Service  of 
a  Commiflioner,  to  Treat  with  the  Cape  Sables  Indians ;  and  that  the  Houfe  would 
confent  to  his  proceeding  therein. 

But  Mr.  Paine  acquainted  the  Houfe,  That  he  could  by  no  means  attend  that 
Service. 

The  following  Vote  fent  down  from  the  Board,  viz.     In  Council  July  25.  1715. 

In  anfwer  to  the  Petition  of  IVilliam  Pepperell  Efq  ;   He  has  leave  to  Vifit  the 
Indians  in  friendfhip,  at  Cape  Sables,  and  ufe  all  proper  methods  to  regain  his  Men 
and  VeflTels,  out  of  the  Indians  hands;  and  the  Frigot  being  alfo  ordered  to  vifit  that 
Coaft  may  cover  them,  and  afford  them  their  Advice  and  Proteftion. 
Sent  down  for  Concurrence. 

Read  and  Non-concurr'd :  As  a  Matter  of  dangerous  Confequence,  for  this 
Government  to  give  allowance  to  the  Ranfoming  of  Captions  from  the  Indians. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


jUartie  26  tiic  Julii  17' 5- 

A  Petition  of  the  Eaftern  Congregation  in  the  Town  of  fVatertown  by  their  Com- 
•*^  mittee,  praying,  That  they  may  be  made  a  Separate  Town,  the  Wefl;ern  Part 
of  the  faid  Town  continuing  to  Illude  the  Orders  of  this  Court  for  the  Maintenance 
of  the  Minifl;ry  in  the  faid  Town:  Sent  down  from  the  Board  with  their  Vote 
thereon  for  Concurrence,  which  was  Read  and  Agreed  to  by  the  Houfe,  with  an 
Amendment.     And  is  as  follows.  The  Amendment  being  inferted,  viz. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners,  ferve  the  Seleftmen  and  AflTeflbrs  of  Watertown 
with  a  Copy  of  this  Petition  and  Summon  them  to  attend  this  Court  on  the  Second 
Wednefday  of  the  next  Fall-Seflion,  to  anfwer  the  Complaints,  made  therein,  of  their 
neglefting  to  comply  with  the  Orders  of  this  Court,  for  the  Maintenance  of  their 
Minifters.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  and  Concurr'd. 

The  Honourable  Board  not  feeing  Caufe  to  agree  to  the  Vote  of  this  Houfe  of 
the  23d  Currant  for  Building  a  Fort  with  Wood. 

Voted,  That  His  Excellency  the  Governour  be  Requefted  to  Order  the  Repairing 
of  the  Stone  Fort  at  Brun/wick  near  Pejepfcut  Falls,  agreeable  to  the  Vote  of  this 
Court  at  their  laft  Seflion.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Ordered,  That  a  Meflage  be  fent  up  to  the  Board,  defiring,  That  the  Bills  that 
have  pafs'd  the  Houfes,  may  be  Engrofs'd  and  Ena(^ed,  that  the  Court  may  rife; 
this  Houfe  having  now  no  bufinefs  before  them. 

The  Petition  of  Jojiah  Chapin  Efq ;  of  Mendon,  upon  which  a  Vote  was  pafs'd  in 
this  Houfe,  the  28th  June  laft;  fent  down  from  the  Board,  the  Council  not  having 
then  pafs'd  upon  it. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Vote  be  Revived  and  fent  up  for  Concurrence. 

M  And 


[44] 

And  the  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  on  the  Petition  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Brook- 
jield,  the  9th  oi  June  laft,  not  being  then  pafs'd  upon  in  Council:  Sent  down  again 
to  be  Revived. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Vote  be  Revived  and  fent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Petition  of  Edward  White  of  Bojlon,  fhewing,  That  Mr.  Jqfeph  Dowding  of  the 
faid  Town  hath  wrongfully  taken  away,  and  with-holds  from  him  his  Houfe,  wherein 
he  is  without  remedy  in  the  Law;  And  that  the  Committee  appointed  by  this  Court 
to  Audit,  and  Adjuft  the  Accompts  depending  between  them,  have  reported  a  con- 
fiderable  Sum  to  be  due  to  him :  Praying,  That  the  faid  Report  may  be  confirmed, 
and  the  faid  Dowding  be  compelled  to  pay  him  accordingly ;  or  that  his  Affair  may 
again  have  its  courfe  through  the  Law. 

Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon  there,  viz.  In  Council  July  26.  17 15. 
Read,  and  the  prayer  of  the  Petition  is  fo  far  granted.  That  the  Petitioner  be  ad- 
mitted to  a  new  Trial.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  &  concurr'd. 

A  Letter  from  His  Excellency  the  Governour  to  the  two  Houfes.  Sent  down 
from  the  Board,  and  is  as  follows,  viz. 

Council  Chamber  in  Bojlon,  July  26.  17 15. 
GENTLEMEN, 

The  News  from  Cape  Sables  increajing  upon  us,  that  the  Indians  have  proceeded  in  their 
Hojiilities,  fo  far  as  to  make  them/elves  Majlers  of  about  Twenty  f even  of  our  Fijhing 
Vejfels,  and  Men  belonging,  of  whom  they  have  Murdered  Eight,  and  wounded  Others. 

I  am  of  Opinion,  That  the  Frigot  proceed  immediately  to  Annapolis  Royall,  and 
Acquaint  the  Government  there,  of  our  prefent  Pojiure,  and  their  Danger,  and  obtain  their 
advice  of  any  Method,  to  be  ufed  to  Recover  our  Vejfels,  and  Prifoners  out  of  the  Indian 
hands ;  and  from  thence  to  proceed  to  Cape  Sables,  to  advife  our  Fijhing  VeJjfels  there  of 
their  Danger :  And  that  there  be  taken  up  forth-with  two  good  Sloops  with  Thirty  Men  each, 
to  Defend  and  Secure  our  remaining  Fi/kery,  upon  the  Coajl  of  Cape  Sables,  and  Parts 
Adjacent,  and  to  hold  his  Cruife  there  for  Twenty  Dayes;  and  then  give  us  Notice  for  our 
further  Proceedure ;  and  that  the  Frigot  Sail  forth-with,  with  Col.  Goffe  on  Board,  no 
other  fit  Per/on  to  be  joyned  with  him  in  this  Negotiation  appearing. 

J.  DUDLET. 

Pafs'd  upon  in  Council,  viz.  July  26th.  17 15.     Read  and  Accepted,  and  defired 
that  it  be  forth-with  proceeded  upon.         Sent  down  for  Concurrence. 
Read  and  Concurr'd. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill,  Intituled,  An  AB  for  the  more  fafe  keeping  the  Regifiry  of  Deeds 
and  Conveyances  of  Lands.         Read  and 

Rejolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Enadled. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  Intituled,  An  A£l  in  Addition  to  an  A 51  for  Regulating  Fees. 
Read  and 

Re/olved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Enabled. 

A  Petition  of  John  Aujian,  late  Town  Clerk  of  Suffield,  prefented  to  the  Houfe 
and  Read,  praying  this  Court  to  Order  the  Proprietors  of  the  faid  Town,  to  have 
a  Meeting;  and  that  the  Juftices  of  the  General  Seffions  of  the  Peace  in  the  County 
of  Hamp/kire,  may  Hear  and  Determine  their  Differences  relating  to  Grants  of 
Lands  in  the  faid  Town. 

Ordered,  That  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Suffield,  be  advifed  &  diredled  to 
Compromife,  and  Iffue  their  Differences  in  the  Affairs  afore-mentioned,  among  them- 
felves  as  fpeedily  as  may  be.  But  if  they  fhall  not  be  fo  wife  as  to  do  it,  in  the  fpace 
of  three  Months  next  coming,  &  fignifie  it  to  the  Honourable  Samuel  Partridge  Efq ; 
That  then  the  Juflices  of  the  General  SelTions  of  the  Peace  in  the  County  of  Hamp- 
fhire.  Hold  a  Special  SefTion  at  the  faid  Town,  Hear  both  Parties  &  Determine  and 
Settle  their  Differences,  whofe  Determination  fhall  be  a  final  Iffue,  and  be  fo  entred 
in  their  Town  Book. 

The  charge  of  the  Seffion  to  be  born  by  the  faid  Town. 

And  the  Town  Clerk  is  direfted  to  Enter  no  Record  of  the  Lands  in  controverfy, 

before 


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before  the  Seffion  order'd  of  the  Juftices,  unlefs  the  Town  come  into  a  good  and 
amicable  agreement  therein.  Sent  up  for  Concurrence.  With  a  Meffage  that  the 
Houfe  have  no  bufinefs  before  them  and  defire  to  Rife. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  John  Clark,  'Thomas  Hutchin/oti,  and  Edmund  ^in/ey 
Efqrs ;  That  feveral  Allowances  which  are  wont  to  be  made  Annually  at  the  May 
Seffion,  are  not  yet  done ;  as  the  Allowance  to  the  Judges,  Treafurer,  i^c.  Moving 
the  Houfe  now  to  Grant  the  fame.  And  intimated  that  the  Treafurer  is  not  willing 
to  be  Sworn  for  the  Service  of  the  Year  currant,  until  his  Allowance  for  the  laft  Year's 
Service  is  Granted. 

The  Queftion  being  put.  Whether  the  Houfe  will  proceed  to  make  Allowances  at  this 
time,  inajmuch  as  the  Tax  to  be  Levied  this  Tear  is  not  agreed  on  ? 
It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

And  the  faid  Vote  was  fent  up  to  the  Board  by  Capt.  Noyes,  Mr.  William  Paine, 
and  Mr.  Chipman. 

The  following  Vote  fent  down  from  the  Board,  viz.  July  26th.  17 15.  Elijha 
Hutchinfon,  Eliakim  Hutchin/on,  Andrew  Belcher,  Thomas  Hutchinfon  and  Edmund 
^in/ey  Efqrs ;  are  a  Committee  to  confer  upon  the  Tax,  with  fuch  as  the  Repre- 
fentatives  fhall  appoint,  that  the  Occafions  of  the  Province  be  not  loft  for  want  of 
a  Supply.  Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read  &  Concurr'd  with  an  Amendment 
added,  viz.  And  confider  fome  Expedient  wherein  the  Houfes  may  be  likely  to  agree 
for  raifing  one. 

And  Capt.  Noyes,  Mr.  Cooke,  Mr.  Epps,  Capt.  Fullam,  Maj.  Bradford,  Capt. 
Parfons,  Capt.  Cawley,  Mr.  Knolton,  and  Capt.  Chambers  are  joined  in  the  Affair. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


Jlterniru  27  tiie  Uultt  171 5. 

A  Plat  of  Land,  offered  to  the  Houfe  for  confirmation,  purfuant  to  the  Vote  of 
"^^  this  Court  at  their  laft  Seflion  for  1686.  Acres  to  be  laid  out,  in  anfwer  to  the 
Petition  of  the  Heirs  of  John  Haynes. 

And  the  Petition  of  the  Heirs  of  the  faid  John  Haynes,  prefented  to  the  Houfe 
and  Read,  praying.  That  the  Land  in  the  faid  Plat  may  be  confirmed  to  them. 

And  a  Petition  of  Hopejlill  Brown,  John  Brigham,  Jofhua  Haynes,  &  Edward 
Goddard,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  and  Read,  praying.  That  a  certain  Tradl  of  Meadow, 
belonging  to  them,  and  others,  lying  within  the  Limits  of  the  faid  Plat,  may  be 
referved  to  them,  together  with  fome  Up-land  to  Stack  their  Hay  upon,  and  a  con- 
venient High-way  to  the  Meadow. 

An  Anfwer  of  the  Heirs  of  the  faid  John  Haynes  to  the  laft  mentioned  Petition, 
Read ;  and  the  Queftion  being  put,  Whether  the  Plat  be  Confirmed? 

It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative.  It  appearing  to  the  Houfe  that  the  Plat  is  fallacioufly 
drawn,  and  contains  feveral  Hundred  Acres  of  Land  more  than  the  1686.  defign'd  to 
be  confirmed  by  this  Court. 

The  Petition  of  the  Committee  of  fundry  Proprietors  of  Swampfield,  praying  as 
entred  the  7th  Day  of  June  laft.         Read  again,  and 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners  lay  before  the  Court  a  Plat  of  their  Original  Grant, 
and  of  the  Land  they  Petition  to  have  added  to  them  by  a  Surveyor  and  Chain-men 
under  Oath.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board  by  John  Clark  &  Thomas  Fitch  Efqrs ;  Moving  the 
Houfe  to  Vote  the  Wages  that  fliall  be  given  to  a  Surgeon  for  the  Sloops  Ordered 
to  Cape  Sables. 

Ordered,  That  a  Meffage  be  fent  up  to  the  Board,  That  fome  proper  Perfon  be 
agreed  with  for  that  Occafion,  upon  fuch  reafonable  Terms  as  he  can  be  obtained. 

The 


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The  following  Vote  brought  from  the  Board  by  Andrew  Belcher,  Ifaac  Winjlow, 
'Thomas  Hutchinfon,  Thomas  Fitch,  and  Edmund  ^in/ey  Efqrs  ;  viz. 

Propofals  for  the  Drawing  in  22000/.  to  be  Levied  on  Polls  and  Eftates,  for  this 
prefent  Year  17 15. 

/.        .f.    d. 
Intereft  on  the  50000/.  Loan  Money  2000     o     o 

In  the  Treafury,  as  appears  by  the  Treafurers  Accompts  2000     o     o 

Import  and  Excife,  fuppofe  to  be  5000     o     o 


A  Tax  on  Polls  &  Eftates  to  be  Levied  this  prefent  Year, ) 
to  compleat  the  22000/.  ) 


13000     o     o 


/.  22000 


In  Council  July  27th.  17 15.     Voted  &  Accepted  unanimoufly. 
Sent  down  for  Concurrence.  Read 

poll  itteritiiem. 

A  Meffage  fent  up  to  the  Board  by  Mr.  William  Denifon,  Mr.  Hitchcock,  and  Mr. 
Chipman,  That  the  Houfe  defire  to  fee  the  Report  of  the  Committee  of  both  Houfes, 
appointed  to  confer  about  the  Tax.    Which  they  brought  down,  &  is  as  follows,  viz. 
Propofals,  for  Drawing  in  the  Tax  of  22000/.     Granted  to  be  paid  in  the  Year 
17 1 5.  viz.  /.         s.    d. 

A  Tax  on  Polls  and  Eftates  iiooo     o     o 

Intereft  of  the  50000/.  Loan  2000     o     o 

In  the  Treafury,  with  an  Obligation  &  Judgment  of  Court  2050     o     o 

Impoft  and  Excife  6950     o     o 

/  22000     o     o 

A  Tax  to  be  Granted  on  Polls  and  Eftates  to  make  good  Deficiences  on  any  of 
the  above  Sums,  5000/.     To  be  Levied  in  1712,  or  1713. 
Read  and  Accepted.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board  by  Eli/ha  Hutchinfon,  Andrew  Belcher,  Edward  Brom- 
field,  John  Clark,  Thomas  Hutchinfon,  Thomas  Fitch,  Thomas  Oliver,  and  Edmund 
S^uinjey  Efqrs.  who  brought  down  the  Vote  of  this  Houfe  upon  the  Report  of  the 
Committee  of  both  Houfes,  concerning  the  Tax  non-concurr'd.  And  Acquainted 
the  Houfe  that  the  Council  could  not  confent  to  the  Pq/i-poning  any  part  of  the  Tax, 
and  mov'd  the  Houfe  to  confent  to  the  Vote  of  the  Board  relating  to  the  Tax  fent 
down  this  Day. 

The  Vote  of  the  Board  relating  to  the  Tax,  entred  in  the  forenoon,  and  then  fent 
down  for  Concurrence.         Read  and  Non-concurr'd. 

Ordered,  That  the  Houfe  Adhere  to  their  Vote  on  the  Report  of  the  Committee 
of  both  Houfes.     And  that  it  be  fent  up  again. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


JotJis  28  tJie  3ulii  1715- 

A  N  Engrofs'd  Bill  Intituled,  An  All  in  Addition  to  an  A£l  of  Limitation,  for  ^iet- 
"*  ^     ing  of  Pojfejfions.         Read  and 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Enad:ed. 

Ordered,  That  Col.  Thaxter,  Col.  Winthrop,  and  Mr.  William  Paine,  with  fuch  as 
the  Honourable  Board  ftiall  Nominate,  be  a  Committee  to  Confider  &  Treat  with 
Perfons  Skilful  in  Surveying;  and  acquainted  in  the  Frontiers,  in  order  to  take  a  Plat 
of  the  ungranted  Lands,  in  the  Frontiers  lying  between  Conne£licut  Great  River,  and 
Merrimack  River,  up  as  high  Weftward,  as  Penicook,  upon  Merrimack  River,  and  from 
thence  upon  a  ftrait    Line,   to  the  neareft  part  of  ConneSlicut  River:    the  Plat  to 

Include 


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Include  all  the  ungranted  Lands  lying  between  the  faid  two  Rivers,  and  the  faid 
ftrait  Line,  and  the  Frontier  Towns.  And  in  order  to  take  Plats  of  the  ungranted 
Lands  that  are  within  the  faid  Frontiers.  And  make  a  Report  to  the  next  Seffion  of 
this  Court  what  the  charge  may  probably  amount  to.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  following  Propofal  prefented  to  the  Houfe  by  the  Subfcribers.  viz. 
T/ty^E  (he  Subfcribers  Proprietors  of  the  Lands  in  Brunfwick,  Topfham,  i£c.  being  De- 
^^  Jirous  to  make  fuch  a  Settlement,  as  may  be  able  to  fuflain  a  War  with  the  Indians, 
Do  acknowledge  the  Favour  of  the  General  Court,  in  their  readinejs  to  Encourage  and  ProteEt 
the  intended  Settlements,  and  particularly  in  the  Repair  of  the  Fort  there ;  yet  perceiving 
the  Houfe  inclinable  to  a  Wooden  Fort,  on  account  of  the  cheapnejs  of  it ;  We  being  fenfible 
that  as  this  Fort  is  fet,fo  as  to  be  a  Bridle  to  the  Indians :  So  if  a  War  fhould  arije,  it 
may  be  Expelled,  they  will  leave  no  means  untryed,  to  become  Mafiers  of  it,  towards  which 
the  Remotenejs  from  Succour  will  give  them  great  advantage,  and  confidering  how  much  the 
Lives  y  Eftates  there  will  depend  upon  the  Strength  ^  Security  of  that  Fort ;  We  have 
been  Induced  to  make  the  following  Propofal. 

That  whereas  the  Wooden  Fort  at  Winter  Harbour  cofi,  as  we  are  informed  400I. 
Pounds,  when  Proviftons,  i£  Labour  were  much  cheaper,  than  at  this  time.  We  cant  fup- 
pofe  fuch  an  one  now  would  cofl  much  lefs  than  500I.  Pounds ;  and  a  Stone  Fort  fuppofed 
to  be  much  more  Chargeable :  Yet  rather  than  the  faid  Fort  fhould  be  of  Wood,  andfo  liable 
to  be  Confumed  by  Fire,  in  cafe  it  fhould  be  Affaulted  by  French  as  well  as  Indians. 

We  Offer,  That  if  the  General  Court  will  pleafe  to  Allow  Five  Hundred  Pounds,  and 
let  us  now  have  the  Fifteen  Men,  which  are  Dejigned  for  that  Garrifon,  we  will  enter  into 
Engagements  to  Repair  &?  Finifh  the  aforefaid  Stone  Fort :  To  be  50  Foot  fquare,  as  pro- 
po/ed,  with  Four  Bafiions,  Two  of  which  of  Wood  on  the  Top  of  the  Angle ;  at  our  own 
Charge,  although  it  fhould  amount  to  more  than  that  Sum.  And  wefhall  fet  about  it  in  a 
Weeks  time  if  poffible,  and  hope  to  finifh  it  before  Winter,  if  not  ObflruBed  by  the  Indians. 
We  defire  to  have  Three  Hundred  Pounds  of  the  faid  Sum  as  occafton  fhall  require,  to  pro- 
vide Materials,  i^c.  and  the  remainder  when  the  work  is  finifhed. 

Bofton,  July  28th.  1715.  Thomas  Hutchinfon. 


Adam  Winthrop 
Oliver  Noyes. 
In  behalf  of  them/elves 
and  partners. 


Memorandum, 

//  is  agreed  that  the  Foundation  of  the  faid  Fort  fhall  be 
Three  Foot  under  ground.  That  the  Wall  fhall  be  Three  Foot 
Thick  at   Bottom,  and  at  leafl  Ten  Foot   High  above  the 
Ground ;  and  laid  in  Lime  Mortar,  with  Barracks  for  Fifteen  Men;  to  be  built  on  or  near 
the  Spot  where  the  Fort  now  fiands. 

Voted,  That  the  faid  Propofals  be  accepted,  and  the  Sums  be  paid  out  of  the 
Treafury  as  propofed.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board  by  Thomas  Fitch,  &  Thomas  Oliver  Efqrs ;  That  Capt. 
Bommazeen  with  the  other  Four  Eaftern  Indians  that  have  been  here  fome  Days  upon 
a  Vifit,  are  now  returning  home,  and  the  Council  think  it  convenient  that  fomething 
be  given  them,  to  bear  their  Expences. 

Voted,  That  the  Sum  of  Four  Pounds  be  allowed  them  to  bear  their  charges  home. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meffage  fent  up  to  the  Board  by  Mr.  Remington,  and  Capt.  Ofgood,  That  this 
Houfe  have  no  bufinefs  lying  before  them,  and  if  there  be  none  to  come  down  from 
the  Board,  the  Houfe  deffre  to  be  difmift. 

Who  return'd  anfwer.  That  His  Excellency  faid  the  Treafury  is  not  yet  fupplyed, 
nor  the  Tax  to  be  Raifed  this  Seffion  agreed  upon,  nor  the  Treafurers  Salary  Voted, 
and  he,  as  yet  not  Sworn,  which  ought  to  be  done  before  the  Court  Rifes. 

The  following  Vote  fent  down  from  the  Board,  viz.    In  Council  ^uly  28th.  1715. 
Voted,  That  if  the  Affembly  agree  to  lay  Eleven  Thoufand   Pounds  Tax  at  this 
Seffion,  in  part  of  the  Twenty  two  Thoufand  Pounds  Granted  by  two  former  Ads 
of  Affembly,  to  be  paid  this  Year;  the  Council  will  agree  to  the  Ad. 
Sent  down  for  Concurrence.         Read. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 

N  0enert0 


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Oenms  29  tie  Julii  1715- 

A  N  A61  for  Apportioning  &  AffefEng  a  Tax  of  Eleven  thoufand  pounds,  on  Polls 
■^^  and  Eflates,  which  with  the  Sum  of  Two  thoufand  pounds  in  the  Treafury, 
Two  thoufand  pounds  Interefl  of  the  Loan  Money,  and  Seven  thoufand  pounds 
by  the  Impoft,  Excife  &  Tunnage  of  Shipping,  part  this  prefent  Seffion,  will  make 
up  the  Sum  of  Twenty  two  thoufand  pounds  purfuant  to  the  Funds  &  Grants, 
made  to  Her  late  Majefty  by  this  Court,  at  their  feveral  Seffions  in  Novemb.  17 lo 
&  May   171 1. 

Ordered,  That  the  Preamble  of  the  Tax  Bill  to  be  pafs'd  this  Seffion,  be  formed 
agreeable  to  the  above-mentioned  Minutes.  And  that  a  Bill  be  drawn  accordingly, 
as  expeditioufly  as  may  be.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Refohed,  That  the  Treafurer  be  &  hereby  is  Dire6led  &  Impowred,  to  Iffue 
forth  and  Emit  the  Sum  of  Four  thoufand  pounds,  of  the  Bills  of  Publick  Credit 
of  this  Province,  that  are  or  (hall  be  received  into  the  Treafury,  for  payment  of  the 
Publick  Debts  of  the  Province  already  contraded ;  for  the  Defence  &  Support  of 
the  Government,  and  the  neceffary  Protection,  and  Prefervation  of  the  Inhabitants 
of  this  Province;  and  for  the  Subfifting  of  Forts,  or  Garrifons,  and  Wages  arifing 
for  their  Service :  (But  the  Fort  at  Cafco  Bay  for  no  longer  time,  than  the  firft  Day 
of  OSlober  next;)  for  Payment  of  Grants,  Salaries,  and  Allowances,  made  or  to  be 
made  by  this  Court,  according  to  fuch  Draughts  as  from  time  to  time  fhall  be  made 
upon  him,  by  Warrant  or  Order  of  the  Governour,  by  &  with  the  Advice  &  Con- 
fent  of  the  Council  :  and  the  faid  Bills  fhall  pafs  out  of  the  Treafury  at  the  value 
therein  expreffed,  equivalent  to  Money;  and  Ihall  be  taken,  and  accepted  in  all 
Publick  Payments  at  the  Advance,  and  after  the  Rate  of  Five  Pounds  -per  Cent.  more. 

And  as  a  Fund  &  Security  for  the  fame,  There  be,  and  hereby  is  Granted  to  His 
Moft  Excellent  Majefty,  to  the  ends  &  ufes,  as  aforefaid,  a  Tax  of  Four  thoufand 
pounds,  to  be  levied  on  Polls  &  Eftates  both  Real  &  Perfonal  within  this  Province, 
according  to  fuch  Rules,  and  in  fuch  Proportion,  upon  the  feveral  Towns  and  Dif- 
tri(5ls  within  the  fame  as  fhall  be  agreed  on,  and  ordered  by  the  Great  and  General 
Court  of  Affembly  of  this  Province,  at  their  Seffion  in  May  Anno  i^ii.  And  paid 
into  the  Treafury  on  or  before  the  lafl  Day  of  December  next  after. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Re/olved,  That  the  Sum  of  Forty  Shillings  be  allowed,  and  paid  out  of  the 
Publick  Treafury  to  Mr.  Benjamin  Rolf  for  his  Service  in  writing  for  this  Court  the 
laft  Year.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Poil  JtterttJiem. 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A5i  for  Apportioning  ^  AJfeJJing  a  'Tax  of  Eleven  'Thoufand 
Pounds  upon  Polls  &  EJlates.  Read  a  firft  time. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


^abbati  30  Me  Julii  1715- 

A  Bill  Intituled,  An  A5i  for  Apportioning  &  AJfeJJing  a  Tax  of  Eleven  Thoufand 
Pounds  upon  Polls  &  EJlates.         Read  a  2d  and  a  3d  time. 

Refolved,  That  the  Bill  do  pafs  to  be  Engrofs'd.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Ordered,  That  the  Reprefentatives  of  the  Town  of  Bojlon,  be  defired  to  take  the 
care  of  Printing  the  Votes  of  this  Houfe  this  Seffion,  and  Treat  with  a  Printer  about 
the  Terms  upon  which  they  may  be  Printed  here-after. 

TTT'HEREAS  '3\t  ijtf  (ZEnaCtetl,  in  the  A  El  for  Granting  to  His  Majefty  feveral  Rates, 
^'^  and  Duties  of  Impoft  and  Tunnage  of  Shipping,  viz.  "  That  there  fhall  be  paid  by  the 
"  Mafter  of  every  Ship,  or  other  Veffel  coming  into  any  Port,  or  Ports  in  this  Province, 

"to 


[49] 

"  to  Trade  or  Traffick,  the  major  part  of  the  Owners  whereof  are  not  belonging  to 
"  this  Province ;  except  fuch  Veflels  as  belong  to  the  Provinces,  or  Colonies  of  Pen- 
"ftlvania.  Weft  &  Eajl  Jersey,  New-York,  Conne6licut,  or  Rhode  IJland;  every  Voyage 
"  fuch  Ship  or  Veflel  does  make,  the  Sum  of  Eighteen-Pence  per  Ton,  or  one  Pound 
"  of  good  New  Gunpowder,  for  every  Ton  fuch  Ship  or  Veflel  is  in  burthen ;  to  be 
"paid  into  the  Commiflioner,  or  Receiver  of  the  Duties  of  Import,  and  to  be 
"  Imployed  for  the  Supply  of  His  Majefty's  Caftle,  and  Forts,  within  this  Province. 

Ordered,  That  it  be  an  Explanation  of  the  faid  Act,  That  the  faid  Duty  is  not  to 
be  paid  for  fuch  Part  or  Parts,  of  any  Ship  or  other  Veflel,  that  is  owned  by  any 
perfon   or  perfons  Inhabiting  this  Province;  and  that  it  be  an   Inftruftion  to  the 
Ofiicer  of  Import  to  govern  himfelf  accordingly. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Complaint  of  Nathanael  Healy,  and  four  others  of  the  South  Part  of  Newton, 
Shewing,  That  they  are  aflefled  to  the  Support  of  the  Minirtry  in  the  faid  Town, 
notwithrtanding  by  an  Order  of  this  Court,  they  are  annexed  to  the  Weftern  Precindl 
in  Roxbury.  Sent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  on  there,  vix.  In  Council,  July  30th. 
1715.  In  Anfwer  to  this  Petition.  Voted,  That  the  Vote  and  Advice  of  this  Court, 
at  their  Seflion  in  May  1713.  to  the  Town  of  Newton,  to  allow  Six  Families  lying 
next  to  Roxbury  to  Attend  the  Worfhip  of  God  at  that  Precindl,  was  and  is  a  Poflitive 
Order,  to  the  faid  Town  ;  to  Difmifs  the  faid  Six  Families,  from  them  to  Attend  the 
Publick  Worfliip  of  God  at  Roxbury ;  and  accordingly  they  are  Difcharged  from 
paying  to  the  Minirters  in  Newton. 

Sent  down  for  Concurrence.     Read  and 

Ordered,  That  the  confideration  of  this  Petition  be  referr'd  to  the  next  Seflion  of 
this  Court;  and  that  in  the  mean  time  no  Dirtrefs  be  made  upon  the  Petitioners. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  Wait  Winthrop,  John  Clark,  &  Thomas  Fitch  Efqrs. 
That  the  Board  had  not  pafs'd  upon  the  Vote  of  this  Houfe,  fent  up  Yefterday,  for 
Supply  of  the  Treafury:  His  Excellency  having  intimated  to  them,  That  he  could 
not  confent  to  the  claufe  therein  relating  to  Ca/co  Fort.  And  they  left  the  faid  Vote 
to  be  further  confidered  of. 

The  faid  Vote  was  fent  up  to  the  Board  again  by  Mr.  Cooke,  and  Mr.  Remington, 
with  a  Meflage,  That  the  Houfe  is  of  Opinion,  They  can't  abate  the  claufe  con- 
cerning Ca/co  Fort,  without  the  hazard  of  having  both  the  Old  Fort  at  Ca/co,  and  a 
New  one  at  Pejep/cut  to  be  maintained. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  for  Supply  of  the  Treafury,  fent  down  again  from  the 
Board,  with  a  claufe  propofed  in  the  room  of  that  concerning  Ca/co  Fort.  viz.  And 
that  the  Treafurer  fend  the  Subfiftence  for  the  Garrifon  at  Ca/co  till  the  firrt  Day  of 
OBober  next;  not  doubting  of  the  Governours  Diredlion  to  Draw  off"  the  Garrifon 
at  Cafco  fo  foon  as  the  New  Fort  at  Pejep/cut  be  finiftied  and  ready  to  receive  the 
Stores,  and  Soldiers  now  lodged  at  Ca/co  Fort. 

The  Queftion  being  put.  Whether  the  Hou/e  agree  to  the  /aid  Amendment  prepo/'d 
by  the  Board? 

It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative.     Nemine  Contradicente. 

Ordered,  That  the  Houfe  Adhere  to  their  Vote.     Sent  up. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  Monday  next  Three  a  Clock  in  the  afternoon. 


l^unae  i  bie  %yx%yx^\  171 5. 

j^Ddington  Davenport  Efq ;  Brought  down  from  the  Board  fome  Letters  advifing 
of  the  Return  of  the  Vefl*els  and  Men,  that  were  taken  by  the    Cape  Sables 
Indians,  and  inform'd  the  Houfe  there  is  no  bufinefs  lying  before  them. 

Mr. 


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Mr.  Cooke,  Mr.  Paine,  and  Capt.  Fullam  were  fent  up  to  the  Board,  to  Inquire 
whether  the  Vote  of  this  Houfe,  for  Supplying  the  Treafury  is  concurr'd.  And  to 
Acquaint  them  that  this  Houfe  have  no  bufinefs  before  them. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  Andrew  Belcher,  Edward  Bromfield,  John  Clark, 
Addington  Davenport,  Thomas  Hutchinfon,  Thomas  Oliver,  and  Edmund  ^in/ey  Efqrs. 
That  the  Council  could  not  concur  with  the  Vote  of  this  Houfe  for  Supply  of  the 
Treafury,  with  that  claufe  in  it  relating  to  Ca/co  Fort ;  But  that  His  Excellency  fays, 
He  is  ready  to  remove  the  Stores  from  Cafco  Fort,  to  Brunfwick,  as  foon  as  the  Fort  at 
Brunjwick  Ihall  be  fit  to  receive  them,  and  will  do  it,  if  it  lyes  in  his  Power,  when  the 
Fort  at  Brunjwick  fhall  be  ready :  And  they  left  the  faid  Vote,  whereon  is  entred, 
viz.     In  Council,  Augujl  ill.  17 15.         Read  and  Non-Concurr'd. 

The  following  Vote  entred  on  the  Vote  for  Supply  of  the  Treafury,  and  fent  up. 
viz. 

Voted,  That  it  is  the  undoubted  Right  of  this  Houfe  to  Appropriate  their 
Grants. 

And  that  the  Houfe  are  neceffitated  to  adhere  to  this  their  Refolve,  without  abat- 
ing the  claufe  relating  to  Cafco  Fort,  having  Voted  the  Repairing  of  the  Fort  at  Brunf- 
wick; which  Vote  is  Concurr'd  by  the  Honourable  Board,  and  confented  to  by  His 
Excellency. 

A  Petition  oi  William  Clap,  and  Fourteen  others  Inhabitants  oi  Cape  Cod,  Affign- 
ing  reafons  why  they  would  not  be  annex'd  to  the  Town  of  Truro;  and  why  they  are 
without  a  Minifter :  and  praying,  That  they  may  be  made  a  Townfhip,  and  affifted 
out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  in  Building  a  Meeting-Houfe,  and  Maintaining  a  Min- 
ifter. Propofing  that  the  Treafury  may  be  reimburf 'd  by  a  Duty  laid  on  the  Fifhery 
there.     Sent  down  from  the  Board.     Recommended. 

Ordered,  That  the  Confideration  of  the  faid  Petition  be  referr'd  to  the  next 
Seflion. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence  by  Capt.  Chambers,  and  Mr.  Moodey,  with  a  Meffage 
that  the  Houfe  have  no  bufinefs  before  them,  and  defire  to  Rife. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board  by  Edmund  ^infey  Efqr;  That  His  Excellency 
Diredts  the  Speaker  and  the  whole  Houfe  to  attend  him  forthwith  in  the  Council 
Chamber. 

Mr.  Speaker,  and  the  whole  Houfe  went  up  accordingly  ;  and  His  Excellency 
Prorogu'd  the  Court  to  Wednefday  the  24th  Day  of  Augufl  Currant,  at  Ten  a  Clock 
in  the  forenoon. 

BOSTON:   Printed  by  %.  ($teen«     1715. 


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Anno  Regni  Regis  GEO  RG II  nunc  Magnae  Britanniae,  ^C.  Secundo. 

JOURNAL 


Of  the  Houfe  of 


Reprefentatives. 

At  a  Great  and  General  Court  or  Affembly  of  His  Majefty's  Province  of 
the  Maffachufetts-Bay  in  i^etU'CnslaUtl,  begun  &  held  at  BofiOU* 
upon  Wednefday  the  25th  Day  of  M^V*  ^VLUO  ©Omini*  i  7  i  5- 
And  continued  by  Prorogation  to  Wednefday  the  24th  Day  of  ^UQ^UOt 
next  after,  and  then  Met. 


A 


Number  sufficient  to  conftitute  a   Houfe   not  appearing,   the    Members 
prefent  agreed  to  meet  again  at  Three  a  Clock  in  the  afternoon. 

Mr.  Speaker  fent  up  a  MefTage  to  the  Board  by  Col.  Thaxter,  and  Capt.  Cawley. 
That  a  ^orum  of  the  Houfe  are  now  met,  and  ready  to  proceed  upon  the  Bufinefs 
of  the  Seffion. 

A  Meflage  from  His  Excellency  hy  Edmund  ^incey  Efq  ;  That  Mr.  Speaker  and 
the  Houfe  forthwith  attend  him  in  the  Council  Chamber. 

Mr.  Speaker  and  the  Houfe  accordingly  went  up  to  the  Council  Chamber,  and 
His  Excellency  made  a  Speech  to  the  Court,  whereof  Mr.  Speaker  obtain'd  a  Copy, 
and  with  the  Houfe  return'd  to  their  own  Chamber. 

His  Excellency's  Speech  Read,  and  is  as  follows,  viz. 

Bofton,  Auguft  24th.  1715. 
GENTLEMEN, 

/Should  not  have  given  you  the  Trouble  of  a  SeJ/ton  at  this  time,  but  that  I  thought  it 
necejjfary  to  give  you  the  Opportunity  to  Provide  for  the  Support  of  the  Government  in  the 
hands  of  the  Civil  Officers,  The  Judges,  the  Treafurer  and  Others  who  ought  to  be  provided 
for,  and  have  at  no  time  been  neglected  by  the  Affembly  beftdes  which  it  is  neceffary,  to  have 
fome-thing  in  the  Treafury  for  the  Defreying  of  other  Emergencies,  that  may  require  the  fame. 
This  will  not  Demand  more  than  a  Day  or  Two  to  Refolve,  and  I  am  not  willing,  to  enter 
into  any  other  Affairs  that  may  Detain  you  from  your  own  bufinefs  in  the  Country  that  is 
prejjing  at  this  time.  J.  DUDLEY. 

A  Motion  being  made,  That  the  Houfe  will  not  proceed  to  make  a  Grant  for 
Supply  of  the  Treafury,  without  an  Introdudlion  thereto,  to  fhew  the  reafon  of  it's 
not  being  done  afore,  and  to  vindicate  the  Houfe  therein. 
Which  meeting  with  fome  Oppofition. 
The  Queftion  was  put,  JVhether  the  Houfe  will  proceed  to  make  a  Grant  forfupply 
of  the  Treafury,  without  fuch  Introduction? 
It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 
Ordered,  That  Mr.  fVilliam  Paine,  Capt.  Noyes  and  Mr.  Remington,  be  a  Com- 
mittee to  prepare  a  draught  of  fuch  Introduftion  and  lay  it  before  the  Houfe. 

Which  they  did  accordingly,  and  was  Read  and  Accepted  by  the  Houfe,  and 
pafs'd  together  with  a  Refolve  for  a  fupply  of  the  Treafury:  as  follows,  viz. 

O  This 


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This  Houfe  having  on  the  i^th  Day  of  July  in  their  lajl  SeJJions ;  Voted,  That  the 
Sum  of  Four  Thoufand  Pounds  of  the  Bills  of  Publick  Credit  of  this  Province  be 
Emitted  by  the  Treafurer,  for  the  Support  of  the  Government,  and  for  Payment  of 
Grants,  Salaries  and  Allowances,  Made  or  to  be  made  by  this  Court,  &c.  which  faid 
Vote  was  then  Non-concurr'd  by  the  Honourable  Council.  For  Reviving  therefore 
of  the  faid  Grant,  and  that  this  Houfe  may  again  fhew  their  readinefs  to  fupply  the 
Treafury. 

Refohed,  That  the  Treafurer  be  &  hereby  is  Direiiled  &  Impowred,  to  Iffue 
forth  and  Emit  the  Sum  of  Four  thoufand  Pounds,  of  the  Bills  of  Publick  Credit 
of  this  Province,  that  are  or  fhall  be  received  into  the  Treafury ;  for  Payment  of  the 
Publick  Debts  of  the  Province  already  contraded  ;  for  the  Defence  &  Support  of  the 
Government,  and  the  neceffary  Proteftion,  and  Prefervation  of  the  Inhabitants  of 
this  Province;  and  for  the  Subfifting  of  Forts,  or  Garrifons,  and  Wages  arifing  for 
their  Service:  (But  the  Fort  at  Cqfco  Bay  for  no  longer  time,  than  the  firft  Day  of 
October  next;)  for  Payment  of  Grants,  Salaries,  and  Allowances,  Made  or  to  be 
made  by  this  Court,  according  to  fuch  Draughts  as  from  time  to  time  fhall  be  made 
upon  him,  by  Warrant  or  Order  of  the  Governour,  by  and  with  the  Advice  and 
Confent  of  the  Council :  and  the  faid  Bills  (hall  pafs  out  of  the  Treafury  at  the  value 
therein  expreffed,  equivalent  to  Money;  and  Ihall  be  taken,  and  accepted  in  all  Publick 
Payments  at  the  Advance,  and  after  the  Rate  oi  Five  Pounds  per  Cent.  more. 

And  as  a  Fund  &  Security  for  the  fame.  There  be,  and  hereby  is  Granted  to  His 
Moft  Excellent  Majefty,  to  the  ends  and  ufes,  as  aforefaid,  a  Tax  of  Four  thoufand 
Pounds,  to  be  levied  on  Polls  and  Eflates  both  Real  and  Perfonal  within  this 
Province,  according  to  fuch  Rules,  and  in  fuch  Proportion,  upon  the  feveral  Towns 
and  Diftrifts  within  the  fame,  as  Ihall  be  agreed  on,  and  ordered  by  the  Great  and 
General  Court  or  Affembly  of  this  Province,  at  their  Seflion  in  May  Anno  1722,  And 
paid  into  the  Treafury  on  or  before  the  laft  Day  oi  December  next  after. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Vote  of  this  Houfe  pafs'd  the  28th  of  July  laft,  relating  to  the  taking  a  Sur- 
vey of  the  Weflern  Frontiers,  not  having  been  then  pafs'd  on  by  the  Board,  was  fent 
for  from  thence,  and  Read,  and 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Vote  be  Revived,  and  Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


3oi)is  25  tiie  ;ilu0uEu  1715- 

A  Motion  being  made.  That  Provifion  be  made  in  the  Law  to  give  certain  and 
■^  ^  feafonable  Notice  to  the  feveral  Members  of  this  Court  of  the  Prorogations 
thereof,  that  fhall  be  made  from  time  to  time  when  this  Court  is  not  Sitting. 

Ordered,  That  Mr.  Cooke  be  defired  to  prepare  a  Draught  of  a  Bill  for  that  end, 
and  lay  it  before  the  Houfe  at  their  next  SefTion. 

The  Committee  of  this  Houfe  appointed  the  lafl  Seffion  to  Treat  with  a  Printer 
for  the  Imprinting  the  Votes  of  this  Houfe,  made  Report  that  Mr.  Bartho.  Green 
Printer,  had  offered  to  do  the  fame,  and  all  the  other  Printing  direfted  by  the  Gov- 
ernment, for  the  fpace  of  Seven  Years  next  coming;  and  to  furnifh  each  Member 
of  this  Court,  with  a  Copy  of  the  faid  Votes,  free  of  charge,  on  each  Tuefday,  Thurf- 
day  and  Saturday,  of  the  feveral  Seffions,  during  the  Term,  upon  his  being  Allowed 
'thirty  Pounds  per  Annum  for  his  Service. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Propofal  be  Accepted.  Sent  up  for  Concurrence ;  with 
a  Meffage  to  the  Board,  That  this  Houfe  have  no  bufinefs  before  them;  and  Defire 
if  there  is  any  thing  to  come  down,  it  may  be  fent  as  foon  as  may  be. 

Ordered, 


[53] 

Ordered,  That  the  Eaftern  half  of  the  Thoufand  Acres  of  Land  referved  to  the 
Province  in  the  Grant  of  the  Townfhip  of  Rutland,  be,  and  hereby  is  Granted  to 
Jo/in  Burrill  Efq ;  Speaker  of  this  Houfe,  and  his  Heirs  and  Affigns  for  ever;  in 
confideration  of  his  long  &  good  Service  to  this  Province.     Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Ordered,  That  a  Meffage  be  fent  up  to  the  Honourable  Board,  Requefting  them 
to  Meet  in  Council  earlier,  if  it  may  be  to  give  as  fpeedy  a  Difpatch  as  poffible  to 
the  affairs  of  the  Seflion. 

Nathanael  Paine  Efq  ;  brought  down  the  Refolve  of  this  Houfe  for  the  fupply 
of  the  Treafury,  Concurr'd  in  Council  with  an  Amendment  added  to  the  claufe 
therein  relating  to  Cafco  Fort,  viz.  Provided  the  New  Fort  at  Pejepjcot,  be  then  in  a 
readinefs  to  receive  the  Fifteen  Men  appointed  by  the  Government,  and  the 
neceffary  Stores. 

Read,  And  the  Queftion  being  put,  Whether  the  Houfe  agree  to  the  Jaid  Amend- 
ment?    It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Refolve  of  this  Houfe  be  Infilled  on.  Sent  up  by  Capt. 
Noyes,  Mr.  William  Paine,  Col.  Winthrop,  Col.  Thaxter,  Mr.  Epps,  Capt.  Chambers, 
and  Mr.  Cawley. 

The  faid  Refolve,  fent  down  from  the  Board,  pafs'd  upon,  as  follows,  viz.  In 
Council,  Aug.  25.  17 1 5.  Refolved,  That  the  Board  do  adhere  to  their  former 
Amendment  to  the  Vote  of  the  Reprefentatives,  for  that  the  Board  are  of  Opinion 
the  Fort  at  Pejepfcot  will  not  be  in  a  readinefs  to  receive  the  Men  and  Stores  neceffary 
for  its  Defence  by  the  time  limitted.  Read. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


C^enerte  26  bte  ;3lu0uflu  171 5. 

^  I  "'He  lafl  Vote  of  the  Board  upon  the  Refolve  of  this  Houfe  for  fupplying  the 
•■•       Treafury,   Read  again,  and 

Ordered,  That  Capt.  Noyes,  Capt.  Fullam,  Mr.  Denifon,  Mr.  William  Paine,  Mr. 
Remington,  and  Capt.  Cawley^  be  a  Committee,  to  Examine  and  Confider  the  Votes 
that  have  pafs'd  this  Year  between  the  Houfes  concerning  the  Forts  at  Cafco  Bay  and 
Brunfwick,  and  prepare  the  Draught  of  a  Vote  proper  for  the  Houfe  to  pafs  in 
anfwer  to  the  faid  lafl  Vote  of  the  Board. 

A  Petition  of  Gerjhom  Woodel  of  Tiverton,  prefented  to  the  Houfe  &  Read,  fhew- 
ifig.  That  he  is  a  Weakly  perfon,  unable  to  fuftain  hard  labour  to  procure  a  Liveli- 
hood, and  is  therefore  defirous  to  obtain  a  Licence  to  keep  a  Tavern,  which  the 
Select-men  of  the  faid  Town  refufe  to  give  their  Approbation  of,  without  rendring 
any  reafon  for  their  Refufal.  Praying,  That  the  Juflices  of  the  Quarter  Seffions  may 
be  enabled  to  Licenfe  him,  Notwithflanding  he  has  not  the  Approbation  of  the  Seledl- 
men,  there  being  no  Taverner  in  the  faid  Town.  Some  Teftimonials  of  his  Qualifi- 
cations for  fuch  Licence  were  alfo  Exhibited  and  Read. 

It  being  Reprefented,  That  there  is  no  Inn-holder  in  the  Town  of  Tiverton, 
and  that  there  is  frequent  Occafion  for  an  Inn  there,  for  the  Entertainment  of 
Travellers,  iSc. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioner  Serve  the  Select-men  of  Tiverton,  with  a  Copy  of 
this  Petition,  that  they  may  fhew  reafon  to  the  Juflices  of  the  General  SefTions  of  the 
Peace  in  the  County  of  Brijtol,  at  their  next  Seflion,  if  any  they  have,  why  the  prayer 
thereof  fhould  not  be  Granted.  And  if  they  do  not  lay  before  them  fufficient  reafon 
why  it  fhould  not  be  granted:  That  then  the  faid  Juflices  be  and  hereby  are  Im- 
powred  to  Grant  a  Licence  as  prayed  for,  without  the  Approbation  of  the  faid 
Select-men,  If  it  appears  to  them  that  the  Petitioner  is  a  meet  Perfon  to  be 
Licenfed. 

Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

The  Vote  lafl  entred  fent  down  again,  Pafs'd  upon  in  Council,  viz.  Read  and 
Concurr'd  with  the  addition  of  any  Law,  Ufage  or  Cuflom  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
flanding.        Sent  down  for  Concurrence.     Read  and  Concurr'd.     And  fent  up. 

A 


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A  Plat  of  the  Original  Grant  of  the  Townfhip  of  Swampfield,  and  a  Trad  of 
Land  adjoyned  thereto  Platted  out  therewith,  which  the  Proprietors  Defire  may  be 
added  to  the  faid  Townfhip ;  The  Surveyor  Thomas  Ha/iings,  and  the  Chain-men 
being  under  Oath;  prefented  to  the  Houfe  for  Allowance  and  Approbation.  And 
the  Queftion  being  put,  Whether  the  faid  TraEl  of  Land  frayed  for,  being  more  than 
Eighteen  Thoufand  Acres,  be  added  to  the  faid  Townfhip  ?     It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

Ordered,  That  the  Plat  of  the  Original  Grant  of  the  faid  Town,  being  Nine  Miles 
long  and  Four  Miles  Wide,  be  Allowed  and  Confirmed  to  the  lawful  Proprietors ; 
Provided  it  interfere  with  no  former  Grants.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  John  Clark  and  Thomas  Fitch  Efqs ;  That  they 
have  no  bufinefs  before  them,  and  if  there  is  any  to  come  from  this  Houfe,  they 
defire  to  have  it  quickly,  for  His  Excellency  is  defirous  foon  to  difmifs  the  Court. 

The  Committee  appointed,  brought  in  a  Draught  of  a  Vote,  in  anfwer  to  the  lafl 
Vote  of  the  Board  on  the  Refolve  for  fupply  of  the  Treafury,  which  was  Read  and 
Pafs'd  by  the  Houfe.     viz. 

This  Houfe  having  for  fundry  Years  pafl  reprefented,  the  Fort  or  Trading 
Houfe  at  Cafco  Bay  to  be  of  no  Service  to  His  Majefly,  either  as  a  Barrier  to  our 
Frontiers,  or  Security  to  our  Fifhery,  and  particularly  on  the  Seventh  &  Tenth 
Dayes  of  their  Seffions  in  June  lafl,  in  Concurrence  with  the  Honourable  Board,  did 
offer  to  His  Excellency  as  their  Opinion,  That  it  was  for  His  Majeflies  Service, 
that  the  faid  Fort  of  Cafco  Bay,  be  flighted,  and  no  longer  continued,  and  that  a 
Stone  Fort  near  Pejepfcot  Falls,  be  repaired  in  flead  thereof,  as  more  convenient  to 
cover  the  new  intended  Settlements  of  Brunfwick,  Topjham,  &c.  and  to  keep  the 
Indians  from  their  Fifhery  in  cafe  of  another  Rupture;  and  did  further  Vote,  That 
no  more  Money  be  drawn  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury,  for  the  fubfifling  and  paying 
any  Officers  or  Souldiers,  at  the  Fort  of  Cafco  after  the  Firfl  Day  of  September  next ; 
and  Ordered  a  Copy  of  the  Vote  to  be  fent  to  Mr.  Treafurer,  for  his  future  Direc- 
tion, to  which  the  Council  did  concur;  and  having  on  the  Twenty  eighth  Day  of 
July,  Ordered  the  Sum  of  Five  Hundred  Pounds  to  be  Iffued  out  of  the  Treafury 
for  repairing  the  faid  Fort  at  Pejepfcot  Falls  (which  Fort  was  built  by  Sir  Edmund 
Androfs  as  the  befl  bridle  to  the  Eaflern  Indians)  And  did  Grant  the  Number  of 
Fifteen  Men  as  a  Garrifon  for  the  faid  Fort,  who  are  now  the  greatefl  part  on  the 
Place,  to  fecure  the  Work-men  in  repairing  and  finifhing  the  fame,  to  receive  the 
{lores  from  Cafco,  where  they  may  be  in  greater  Danger  by  the  ruinous  State  of  the 
Fort,  than  they  will  be  at  Pejepfcot  by  the  Firfl  of  OSlober ;  And  the  Houfe  thereon 
Refolved,  That  no  more  Money  fhould  be  raifed,  for  the  Subfiftence  of  the  faid  Fort 
at  Cafco  after  the  Firfl  Day  of  OSlober  next,  and  Afferted  it,  as  their  undoubted 
Right  to  Appropriate  their  Grants ;  which  Refolve  has  been  revived  this  Seffion ; 
and  as  it  is  no  Infringement  on  His  Majefly's  Honour  or  Service,  but  agreeable  to 
the  Charter,  and  a  great  Eafe  to  His  Majefly's  Subjefts.  Therefore  Refolved,  That 
the  Houfe  do  adhere  to  their  former  Vote;  and  they  think  themfelves  bound  in 
Duty  to  His  Majefly  and  the  People  they  Reprefent,  fo  to  do.         Sent  up. 

Ordered,  That  the  feveral  Petitions  referr'd  to  this  Seffion,  be  continued,  and 
referr'd  to  the  next  Fall  Seffion. 

Poll  JEerititem* 

Ordered,  That  Col.  Winthrop,  and  Mr.  William  Paine,  be  defired  to  Confult  with 
the  Treafurer  what  are  the  feveral  Articles  of  the  ordinary  Charge  of  the  Province 
annually,  and  make  Report  to  this  Houfe  at  their  next  Seffion. 

A  Meffage  fent  up  to  the  Board  by  Mr.  Newman,  and  Mr.  Partridge,  That  there 
is  no  bufinefs  lying  before  the  Houfe,  and  if  there  be  any  to  come  from  the  Council 
they  defire  to  receive  it. 

And  then  the  Houfe  Adjourn'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning  Nine  a  Clock. 


[55] 
j^bbati  27  tJie  ;3iuguftii  171 5. 

A  Meflage  fent  up  to  the  Board  by  Mr.  fVi/Iiam  Paine,  Col.  Thaxter,  and 
■*^  Capt.  Cawley,  To  inquire  whether  the  Council  had  Concurr'd  to  the  Votes  of 
this  Houfe  Granting  500  Acres  of  Land  to  Mr.  Speaker  Burrill ;  and  for  the  annual 
Printing  propofed  to  be  done  for  the  Government.  And  to  defire  if  there  is  any 
bufinefs  to  come  from  the  Board,  that  it  may  be  fent  as  foon  as  conveniently  may 
be,  the  Houfe  having  none  before  them.  Who  Return'd,  That  the  Council  faid,  the 
faid  Votes  were  now  under  their  Confideration. 

The  Refolve  of  this  Houfe  for  fupply  of  the  Treafury,  fent  down  from  the 
Board  with  the  following  Vote,  viz.  In  Council  ^ug.  27th.  171 5.  The  Refolve  of 
the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives  of  the  24th  Currant  being  read,  Concurr'd  with,  only 
extending  the  Limitation  relating  to  Cqfco  Fort,  to  the  Firft  of  November  next  enfu- 
ing ;  and  Ordered,  That  the  Undertakers  to  build  the  Fort  at  Pejep/cot,  be  direfted 
with  utmoft  Speed  and  Diligence  to  Proceed  in  that  affair,  and  accomplifh  the  fame 
by  the  time,  fo  that  it  may  be  capable,  to  receive  and  entertain  the  Men  and  Stores 
propofed ;  and  that  if  it  be  not  pofTible  to  build  and  finifli  the  faid  Fort  according 
to  the  Order  of  this  Court  by  the  time,  then  what  is  wanting  to  be  made  up  by 
Stockadoes,  to  Secure  and  make  it  defenfible,  until  the  Seafon  will  Allow  the  Stone- 
work to  be  finilhed.     Sent  down  for  concurrence.  Read  and  Concurr'd. 

Ordered^  That  a  Meflage  be  sent  up  to  the  Board,  Defiring  that  the  Stores  may 
be  remov'd  from  Ca/co  to  Pejep/cot  Fort,  as  foon  as  the  latter  fhall  be  ready  to  receive 
them,  which  is  hop'd  will  be  fooner  than  the  Firfl  of  November :  Which  was  carried 
up  by  Capt.  Noyes,  Mr.  William  Paine,  and  Mr.  Epps,  who  return'd,  That  His 
Excellency  faid.  He  would  do  all  that  he  had  faid  concerning  it. 

A  Motion  being  made  that  the  Houfe  will  now  have  the  Confideration  of  making 
an  Allowance  to  Mr.  Agent  Dummer,  for  his  Service.         After  fome  Debate. 
The  Queft;ion  being  put,  It  pafs'd  in  the  Negative. 

Ordered,  That  the  Confideration  of  that  Affair  be  Referred  to  the  next  Seflion. 

A  MefTage  to  His  Excellency  the  Governour  by  Col.  fVinthrop  and  Capt.  Noyes, 
That  the  Houfe  defire  to  be  Inform'd,  Whether  his  Excellency  has  Confented  to  the 
Refolve  for  fupplying  the  Treafury,  with  the  Amendments  made  to  it;  being  willing 
to  Proceed  to  Grant  the  ufual  Allowances,  if  the  Treafury  is  enabled  to  pay  them. 
Who  return'd  anfwer.  That  His  Excellency  faid,  He  fhould  under-write  it,  before  he 
went  out  of  the  Court. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Board  by  John  Clark  and  Thomas  Fitch  Efqrs ;  That  the 
Houfe  would  make  Allowance  for  Mr.  Secretary  Addingtons  Service,  the  time  he 
liv'd  after  his  lafl  Allowance  was  made. 

And  to  Mr.  Jo/eph  Hiller  for  the  time  he  has  Serv'd  as  Clerk  of  the  Council. 

A  MefTage  to  the  Board  by  Capt.  Fullam  and  Mr.  Knolton,  That  the  Houfe  is 
ready  to  Grant  the  ufual  Allowances,  as  foon  as  they  are  Certified  that  His  Excel- 
lency has  Sign'd  the  Refolve  for  Supplying  the  Treafury. 

Who  Return'd  anfwer.  That  His  Excellency  faid,  He  fhould  not  Sign  it  this 
Day,  It  not  being  cuftomary  for  him  to  Sign  the  Votes  of  the  Court  before  they 
were  entred  Fair  in  a  Book :  But  that  He  would  Sign  it  before  any  Money  was 
drawn  out  of  the  Treafury. 

A  MefTage  to  the  Board  by  Mr.  IVilliam  Paine,  Capt.  Noyes,  and  Col.  thaxter. 
That  the  Houfe  think  it  necefTary,  That  all  Afts  and  Votes  of  the  Court  fhould  be 
Sign'd,  and  PerfecSled  before  the  Seffion  is  ended.  And  that  the  Return  of  a  MefTage 
from  His  Excellency  this  Day  Inform'd  the  Houfe,  That  His  Excellency  was  pleaf 'd 
to  fay.  He  would  under-write  the  Vote  for  fupply  of  the  Treafury  before  he  went 
out  of  the  Court. 

Who  Return'd  That  His  Excellency  faid,  It  had  hitherto  been  his  Cuflom  to 
Sign  the  Votes  of  the  Court  after  they  are  entred  Fair  in  a  Book,  and  not  in  the 
Original  Draught :  And  that  he  is  not  willing  to  alter  it  now. 

P  foil 


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Mr.  Hiller  brought  down  the  Vote  for  Supplying  the  Treafury,  Subfcrib'd  by 
His  Excellency  :  viz.     i  con/ent  to  this  Grant.  J.    DUDLET. 

Ordered,  That  the  Votes  of  this  Houfe  in  the  prefent  Seflion  be  Imprinted  upon 
the  foot  of  the  Agreement  with  Mr.  Green  the  Printer:  And  that  the  Reprefentatives 
of  Bojlon  be  defired  to  take  the  Care  of  having  them  Printed. 

Re/ohed,  That  the  Sum  of  Two  Hundred  and  Fifty  Pounds,  be  Allowed  and 
Paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  His  Excellency  JOSEPH  DUDLET  Efqr; 
Captain  General,  and  Governour  in  Chief  of  this  His  Majefly's  Province,  for  his 
Support  in  Managing  the  AiFairs  of  the  Government.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Re/ohed,  That  the  Sum  of  Fifty  Pounds,  be  Allowed  and  Paid  out  of  the  Pub- 
lick  Treafury,  to  the  Honourable  William  Tailer  Efqr;  in  Confideration  of  his 
readinefs  at  all  times  to  Serve  this  Province.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Refolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Three  Hundred  Pounds,  be  Allowed  and  Paid  out  of 
the  Publick  Treafury,  to  the  Honourable  the  Judges  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Judi- 
cature, in  Proportion  to  the  Courts  they  attended  the  Year  pafl. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Refolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Forty  Pounds,  be  added  to  the  Allowance  of  the 
Reverend  Mr.  John  Leverett,  Prefident  of  Harvard  College,  for  the  Year  Currant 
beginning  in  January  lafl,  and  Paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury,  in  Confideration  of 
the  extraordinary  Scarcity  and  Dearnefs  of  Provifions,  and  other  Neceflaries  of 
Houfe-Keeping.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Resolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Two  Hundred  and  Twenty-five  Pounds,  be  Allowed 
and   Paid   out  of  the  Publick   Treafury,  to  Mr.   Jeremiah  Allen,  Treafurer  of  this 
Province,  for  his  Service  the  Year  paft,  his  Trouble  being  extraordinary  in  Changing 
the  Bills  of  Credit,  and  taking  care  for  the  fupply  of  the  Garrifons. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Refolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Twenty  Pounds,  be  Allowed  and  Paid  out  of  the 
Publick  Treafury  to  Mr.  John  White  Clerk  of  this  Houfe,  in  Part  for  his  Service  the 
Year  Currant.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Rejolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Twenty  Pounds,  be  Allowed  and  Paid   out  of  the 
Publick  Treafury  to  Mr.  Jofeph  Hiller,  for  his  Service  as  Clerk  of  the  Honourable 
Council,  for  half  a  Year,  beginning  the  13th  Day  oi  March  laft. 
Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

Refolved,  That  the  Sum  of  Forty  Pounds,  be  Allowed  and  Paid  out  of  the 
Publick  Treafury  to  Mr.  John  Flagg,  Door-keeper  to  His  Excellency  the  Governour 
and  Council,  and  this  Court,  for  his  Service  the  Year  paft,  ending  the  26th  Day  of 
June  laft.         Sent  up  for  Concurrence. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Board  by  Eliakim  Hutchinfon,  Andrew  Belcher,  and  Addington 
Davenport  Efqrs;  Moving  the  Houfe  to  Grant  an  Allowance  to  Mr.  Agent 
Dummer  at  this  time.  It  being  more  than  a  Year  fince  any  Allowance  had  been 
Granted  to  him. 

A  Meflage  fent  up  to  the  Board  by  Capt.  Chambers,  and  Capt.  Fullam,  That  the 
Houfe  have  already  Voted  to  Refer  the  Confideration  of  Making  an  Allowance  to 
Mr.  Agent  Dummer,  to  the  next  Sefliion.  And  defire  if  the  bufinefs  of  the  Sefl[ion  be 
finifhed  that  the  Court  may  Rife. 

Who  Return'd,  That  His  Excellency  defired  the  Houfe  now  to  Confider  Mr. 
Dummer's  Service,  as  they  ufe  to  do. 

A  Meffage  from  His  Excellency  the  Governour  by  Edmund  ^incey  Efq;  That 
Mr.  Speaker  and  the  Houfe  do  now  Attend  Him  in  the  Council  Chamber. 

Which  they  did  accordingly,  and  His  Excellency  Prorogu'd  the  Court,  to 
Wednefday  the  28M  Day  oi  September  next,  at  Ten  a  Clock  in  the  Forenoon. 

BOSTON:   Printed  &  Sold  by  25.  d^reetl.     17 15. 


MINUTES 

Of  the 

Governor  and  Council 


flo^emhet  &  December,  17 15 


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Anno  Regni  Regis  GEORGII  Secundi 


MINUTES 

of  the 

Governor  and  Council 


At  a  Great  &  General  Court  or  Affembly  for  his  Majeftys  Province  of 
the  MafTachufetts  Bay  in  j^ttD  CnglatltJ  begun  &  held  at  BottOtl 
upon  Wednefday  the  twenty  fifth  of  JvlSip  1715-  And  continued 
by  feveral  Prorogations  to  Wednefday  the  twenty  third  of  jBtOtJEIllutt 
following,  &  then  mett,  Being  their  fourth  Seffion. 

Wednefday  Novem'  23.  171 5 

Prefent  in  Council. 
The  Honble  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu.  Gov'. 


Eli/ha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'.  Sewall 
Jqfeph  Lynde 
Eli".  Hutchin/on 
Andrew  Belcher 


John  Appleton 
Edw''  Bromfield 
Efq:         John  Cujhing 
John  Higginfon 
Nath'.  Norden  . 


Benj'  Lynde 
John  Clarke 
Efq:        Addin  Davenport 
Thomas  Fitch 
Sam'.  Browne 


Efq: 


AMeflage  by  John  Cujhing,  Nath'.  Norden  &  Addington  Davenport  Efq:  to  the 
Reprefent",  To  Acquaint  M:  Speaker  &  the  Houfe,  That    the    Lieul 
Governour  &  Council  are  fitting;   And  that  the  Honourable  the  Lieu- 
tenant  Governour  expe6ls  their  Attendance  on    him  forthwith   in  the 
Council  Chamber. 

M:  Speaker  &  the  Reprefent"'  being  accordingly  come  up;  The  Hon".'  the 
Lieu!  Govern:  made  a  Speech  in  the  Words  following,  viaf. 

GENTLEMEN, 
"\7'OU  are  fenfible  His  Majefty  has  been  gracioufly  pleas'd  to  Appoint  his  Excel- 
•*■  lency  Col.  BURGES  Governour  of  this  Province;  His  Comiffion  has 
been  lately  Publifli'd  here,  but  fome  Important  Affairs  detain  him  ftill  in  England, 
and  he  may  not  be  expeded  here  before  the  Spring ;  Which  makes  it  my  Province  to 
meet  you  at  this  Jundlure,  tho'  later  than  ufual,  but  I  do  it  with  great  Satisfa(5lion, 
becaufe  I  am  well  afTur'd  of  your  Loyalty,  and  Affedlion  to  His  prefent  Majefty, 
and  your  Zeal  for  the  Proteftant  Succeflion,  which  leaves  no  room  to  doubt  but  that 
you  are  come  together  with  full  Difpofitions  to  Maintain  the  Honour  of  the  Crown, 
and  to  promote  the  Intereft  and  Weal  of  His  Majefty's  Good  Subje<5b  in  this 
Province. 

The  great  and  infupportable  Difficulty  we  now  labour  under  with  refpedt  to  our 
Trade,  deferves  your  confideration  this  Seffion,  and  I  hope  you  will  find  out  fome 
way  for  the  Support  and   Increafe  of  it. 

G  In 


[6o] 

In  your  former  Seffions  you  were  pleaf'd  to  give  dire6lions  for  the  Reception  of 
your  Governour  then  Expefted.  In  his  Letter  to  the  Council  he  has  affur'd  them 
that  he  has  nothing  fo  much  at  heart  as  the  Welfare  and  Intereft  of  this  Province; 
You  have  in  return  the  beft  Opportunity  now  of  fhowing  your  good  Inclinations  to 
him  by  timely  providing  a  Suitable  Houfe  for  him,  which  he  has  Signified  to  me 
would  be  very  Acceptable  to  him,  and  which  you  may  Exped:  he  may  requite  in  his 
readinefs  to  Serve  you  on  all  Occafions. 

His  Majefty  has  been  pleafed  likewife  to  Appoint  Mr.  Woodward  Secretary  of 
this  Province,  which  with  the  Charadler  of  his  Excellency  Col.  B  URGES  has  been 
pleaf'd  to  give  me  of  him,  as  likewife  my  Perfonal  Knowledge  of  him  fince  his 
Arrival,  makes  me  with  the  greater  freedom  Recommend  him  to  you  for  your  due 
Encouragement. 

You  cannot  Oblige  me  more  than  by  giving  me  an  Opportunity  to  Serve  my 
Country,  therefore  what  neceffary  Laws  for  the  Good  of  the  Province  you  may  fee 
caufe  either  to  Revive,  or  Enadl,  You  may  be  fully  affur'd  of  my  ready  Concurrence 
to  them,  while  I  have  the  Honour  to  Serve  to  my  prefent  Station :  Thefe  and  all 
other  Matters  referred  to  this  prefent  Seflion,  will,  I  hope  by  your  Application,  and 
Unanimity  be  fo  difpatch'd,  as  will  in  a  fhort  time  bring  it  to  a  happy  Conclufion. 

W.  Tailer. 

The  Honble  the  Lieu'  Govern'  having  ended  his  Speech  deliver'd  a  Copy  thereof 
to  the  Speaker  &  difmiffed  the  Houfe  to  their  bufinefs. 

John  Appleton,  John  Higginfon,  John  Cufhing,  Nathl  Norden,  Benj'.  Lynde  &  Samuel 
Browne  Efq'  feverally  took  the  Oaths  appointed  by  A61  of  Parliament  to  be  taken 
inftead  of  the  Oaths  of  Allegiance  &  Supremacy,  Repeated  &  Subfcrib'd  the  Teft 
or  Declaration  took  the  Oath  of  Abjuration,  &  the  Oath  of  Councellour,  as  the  Law 
diredls. 

A  Meffage  from  the  ReprefentT  by  Cp!  Oliver  Noyes  &  William  Payne  that  the 
Houfe  defire  the  Perufal  of  the  Book  wherein  the  Govern'  Lieu'.  Governf  &  Secre- 
tarys  Comiflions  are  recorded. 

Which  was  fent  in  accordingly. 

Adjourn'd  to  To  morrow  at  Ten  in  the  Morning. 


Thurfday  Nov.  24.  17 15. 


Prefent  in  Council 


The  Hon"!'  William  Tailer  Efq!  Lieu.  Govern^ 


Wait  Winthrop 
Elijha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'.  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Elia"'  Hutchinfon 
John  Appleton 


^Efq! 


John  Higginfon 
And"  Belcher 
Edw^  Bromfield 
John  Cufhing 
Nath'.  Payne 
Nath'.  Norden    . 


Benj'  Lynde 
John  Clarke 
Addin  Davenport 
'  Efq-  Tho-  Hutchinfon 

"Thomas  Fitch 
Samuel  Brown 


'Efq: 


AMeflage  from  the  ReprefentT  by  Cpt.  Oliver  Noyes  &  M'  Eli/ha  Cook  requeft- 
ing  that  an  account  of  Colonel  Edmund  Goffes  Proceedings  at  Annapolis-Royal 
may  be  laid  before  them. 

The  following  Order  pafs'd  in  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent!  Read  &  Concur'd. 
Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Jo^w  Nelfon  of  Bojion  in  the  County  oi  Suffolk,  fet- 
ting  forth  that  John  Cotta  Jun'  &  Sarah  his  Wife,  Bethia,  Martha  &  Dorothy 
Wharton,  Spinfters,  all  of  Bojlon  aforefaid  at  the  Inferior  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for 
the  faid  County  of  Suffolk  held  at  Bq/lon  on  the  firft  Tuefday  oi  July  1714,  Com- 
menced an  A6tion  or  Plea  of  the  Cafe  againft  your  Petitioners,  fetting  forth  that 
whereas  they  the  faid  Cotta  &"  by  a  Letter  of  Attorney  impowered  your  Petitioner  to 

fell 


[6.] 

fell  &  difpofe  of  an  Eftate  in  Land  to  them  belonging  in  the  Colony  of  Rhoad-IJland 
to  their  beft  Profit  &  Advantage  &  to  render  a  true  Account  of  the  Proceedings 
therein  to  the  faid  Cotta  &f  And  they  in  fadt  faid  that  your  Petitioner  by  Virtue  of 
the  faid  Letter  of  Attorney  had  fold  &  difpofed  of  the  faid  Lands  for  near  Three 
Thoufand  Pounds,  as  it  was  faid,  neverthelefs  the  faid  Petitioner  tho'  often  thereto 
requefted  by  the  faid  Cotta  &"  utterly  neglefted  &  refufed  to  render  a  juft  &  true 
Account  thereof,  &  to  pay  what  of  right  belong'd  to  them  out  of  the  Proceeds  of  the 
s''  Lands  to  their  Damage  One  Thoufand  Pounds,  And  your  Petitioner  gave  Bond  to 
appear  at  &  abide  the  Judgment  of  faid  Court,  w*"  Adlion  was  continued  to  05iober 
Court  then  next  following.  But  by  Reafon  of  the  Demife  of  the  late  Queen,  When  it 
was  fuppof'd  all  Adions  at  that  Court  would  fall,  yet  they  were  continued  to  the 
firfl,  Tuefday  of  November.  When  by  Reafon  that  your  Petitioner  lived  upon  an 
Ifland,  &  the  then  Extremity  of  the  Weather,  he  could  not  appear,  but  made  default, 
and  Judgment  was  render'd  againft  your  Petitioner  to  render  an  Accompt  within  one 
month  afterwards,  or  pay  the  Sum  of  Five  hundred  Pounds,  &  Cofts  of  Suit,  And 
your  Petitioner  fheweth  that  being  altogether  unacquainted  with  the  Judgment  afore- 
faid,  Did  not  Render  an  Accompt,  Purfuant  thereunto.  Whereupon  Execution  was 
taken  out  againft  him  for  the  Five  hundred  Pounds  &  Cofts ;  And  as  foon  as  your 
Petitioner  had  Knowledge  thereof.  He  prefented  an  Accompt  to  the  s''  Cotta  &",  Whereby 
it  plainly,  truly  &  honeftly  appears.  That  there  is  not  one  Penny  due  to  the  faid 
Cotta  &^  And  tho'  your  Petitioner  has  fundry  times  offer'd  to  fubmit  his  Accompt 
to  any  impartial  Men,  &  give  fecurity  to  pay  what  they  fhall  find  due  to  them,  yet 
they  are  fo  unreafonable  that  they  will  not  accept  thereof.  But  take  Advantage  of 
your  Petitioners  Latches,  and  will  not  be  fatisfied  with  any  thing  lefs  than  the  faid 
Five  hundred  Pounds  &  Cofts,  And  Profecute  your  Petitioner  with  their  Execution, 
That  he  cannot  go  about  his  lawfull  Occafions.  Now  for  afmuch  as  your  Petitioner 
can  have  no  Remedy  at  Law,  to  be  reliev'd  in  the  Premifl"es  without  a  new  Tryal, 
By  Reafon  of  his  not  appearing  &  Pleading  to  the  faid  A6tion,  Your  Petitioner 
therefore  humbly  Prays,  That  a  new  Tryal  may  be  granted,  &  that  he  will  be  ready 
to  pay  to  the  faid  Cotta  &"  whatever  fhall  be  found  due  on  a  full  &  fair  Hearing,  and 
that  in  the  mean  time  Execution  againft  him  may  be  fufpended  &' 

Ordered^  That  the  Petitioner  ferve  "John  Cotta  Jun'  Bethia,  Martha  &  Dorothy 
Wharton  with  a  Copy  of  this  Petition,  That  they  may  {hew  Reafon,  if  any  they  have, 
why  the  Prayer  thereof  (hould  not  be  granted,  on  Tuefday  next  at  Ten  o  Clock 
Forenoon.     And  that  in  the  meantime  the  ferving  of  the  Execution  be  fufpended. 

Confented  to,     Wf  Tailer. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Reprefenf"  by  M'  Elijha  Cooke,  M'  William  Payne,  &  M' 
Jonathan  Remington,  Defiring  the  Concurrence  of  the  Board  with  them  in  the  Choice 
of  four  new  Councellours  to  fill  up  the  Vacancy,  there  being  that  number  wanting. 

A  Meffage  to  the  Reprefent"'  by  Addington  Davenport  &  Sam\  Brown  Efq',  That 
the  Board  will  concur  with  them  in  filling  up  the  Vacancies,  If  they  do  not  fee  caufe 
to  defer  it,  on  Confideration  that  the  Reprefent""  for  the  Province  of  Main  are  not 
prefent. 

Upon  which  a  Meflage  was  fent  from  the  Houfe  by  M'  Parfons  &  M'  Epps,  That 
the  Reprefent'f  defire,  that  the  Ele(5lion  of  Councellours  to  fill  up  the  Vacancies  be 
defer'd  till  Tuefday  next  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  morning. 

The  following  Order  pafs'd  in  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'",  Read,  &  Concur'd  with 
an  Amendment ;  viz'. 

Upon  Reading  a  Petition  of  Stephen  William  Samuel  Williams,  Edw''  Dor,  John 
Mayo,  John  Bowles  &  John  Holbrook  Feoffors  in  Truft  for  the  Overfight  &  Manage- 
ment of  the  free  School  in  the  Town  of  Roxbury,  Setting  forth  that  the  faid  free 
School  is  one  of  the  moft  ancient  &  famous  Schools  in  this  Province,  Where  by  the 
favour  of  God  more  Perfons  have  had  their  Education,  who  have  been,  &  now  are, 
worthy  Minifters  of  the  everlafting  Gofpel,  than  in  any,  we  may  fay,  than  in  many 

Towns 


[62] 

Towns  of  the  Bignefs,  in  this  Province,  Whereby  (your  Petitioners  humbly  beg  leave 
to  fuggeft)  the  faid  Town  hath  well  deferved  of  the  Publick,  and  the  Hon"°  General 
Court  were  pleaf'd  at  their  Seffion  in  OElober  1660,  fo  far  to  confider  faid  School  as 
to  make  a  Grant  of  Lands  towards  the  maintenance  of  it  in  the  Terms  following, 
viz'.  The  Court  judgeth  it  meet  to  grant  to  the  Town  of  Roxbury  Five  hundred  Acres 
of  Land  towards  the  maintenance  of  a  free  School  (an  attefled  Copy  whereof  is  here- 
with exhibited)  w*"  Grant  your  Petitioners  cannot  find  was  ever  laid  out  (altho  they 
have  made  diligent  Enquiry)  and  they  are  well  affur'd  It  hath  never  been  by  your 
Petitioners ;  Therefore  now  humbly  pray  to  perfed:  &  make  efFe(5lual  the  pious 
Intention  of  the  former  Grant,  by  allowing  your  Petitioners  to  protrad  &  take  up 
the  afore  Granted  Tra6b  of  Five  hundred  Acres  of  Land  by  a  Skilful  Surveyour  & 
Chainmen  under  Oath,  in  any  Place  within  this  Province  not  yet  granted,  at  the 
Charge  of  the  faid  School,  And  prefent  a  Plat  thereof  to  this  Honour""  Court  for 
their  Allowance  &  Confirmation,  for  the  ufe  &  Benefit  of  the  s"*  School  for  ever ; 

Ordered,  That  the  Prayer  of  this  Petition  be  granted,  Provid'd  the  faid  Grant  has 
not  been  fatisfied  &  laid  out  heretofore.  The  Petitioners  to  prefent  their  Plat  for 
Confirmation,  at  or  before  the  Seffion  of  this  Court  in  Autumn  next;  Provided  like- 
wife  that  it  be  not  taken  up  between  the  Purchafe  of  Moguncoy  &  Sutton. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

This  Day  being  appointed  for  the  Hearing  the  Petition  of  Sundry  of  the 
Eafterly  Part  of  the  Town  of  Bridgwater ; 

Ordered,  That  the  Hearing  be  deferr'd  to  Wednefday  the  feventh  of  December 
next,  and  that  the  adverfe  Party  be  ferv'd  with  a  Copy  of  this  Order.  Concur'd  by 
the  Reprefent'" 

Confented  to,  W""  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd  unto  To  Morrow  at  ten  a  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Friday  Nov  25  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon""  fVilliam  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Govern'. 


Wait  Winthrop 
Elijha  Hutchinjon 
Sam'.  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli"'  Hutchinjon 
Thomas  Hutchin/on 


.Efqr 


John  Appleton 
John  Higgin/on 
And^_  Belcher 
Edw'^  Bromjield 
John  Cujhing 
Sam'  Brown 


Efq-: 


Nath.  Payne 
Nath'.  Norden 
BenJ"  Lynde 
John  Clarke 
Addin  Davenport 
Thomas  Fitch 


►  Efqr 


COlo.  Thaxter  brought  up  M[  Agent  Dummer's  Letters  &"  directed  to  John  Burrel 
Efq'  Speaker  which  he  receiv'd  in  the  Recefs  of  the  Court:  And  were  all 
feverally  Read  at  the  Board. 

The  following  Order  pafs'd  in  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"',  Read  &  Concur'd,  viz'. 

Upon  reading  the  Petition  oijohn  Legg  Efq',  Cap'  Edward  Brattle,  Richard  Skinner, 
Richard  Trevot,  Eleazer  Ingojs,  John  Stacey,  John  Hofman,  John  Palmer  &  Jeremiah 
Getchel,  a  Committee  for  Marblehead  in  behalf  of  themfelf  &  thofe  whom  they  repre- 
fent,  fetting  forth  that  the  faid  Town  oi  Marblehead  being  of  late  years  by  the  good 
Providence  of  God  greatly  increaf'd,  Infomuch  that  the  Inhabitants  cannot  poffibly 
with  any  Conveniency  affemble  together  in  one  Place  or  Houfe  for  the  Publick 
Worfhip  of  God,  and  a  fecond  or  new  Meeting  Houfe  hath  for  fome  time  been 
tho't  convenient  &  neceffary.  Whereupon  the  Petitioners  &  their  Affociates  (being 
mov'd  as  they  truft  by  a  good  Principle,  &  not  in  the  leaft  from  any  Difaffeftion  to 
the  Rev.  Paftour  &  Church  of  Chrift  with  whom  they  have  hitherto  affembled)  on 
the  fifth  day  of  February  laft  folemnly  agreed  upon  feveral  Articles  referring  to  the 

building 


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building  a  new  Meeting  Houfe  in  the  faid  Town  of  Marblehead  for  the  Publick 
Worfliip  of  God,  the  Advancement  of  Religion,  &  the  Eafe  &  Comfort  of  themfelves 
&  Families,  &  all  fuch  as  fhall  fucceed  them  with  a  particular  regard  to  the  Rev"*  M' 
Edward  Holy oke  for  their  intended  Minifter,  As  may  be  feen  by  a  Copy  of  the  Articles 
of  Agreement,  Of  all  which  the  faid  Town  oi  Marblehead  'w^x^  very  well  acquainted, 
and  fo  far  fatisfied  in,  as  on  the  fourteenth  Day  of  March  laft  paft  to  come  to  the 
following  Refolutions ;  vix'.  That  the  Town  gives  their  Confent  &  Liberty  to  the 
Undertakers  for  building  a  new  Meeting-Houfe  in  this  Town,  The  faid  Undertakers 
doing  it  at  their  own  Coft  &  Charge,  &  the  Town  as  a  Town  not  to  be  burthen'd 
or  charg'd  therewith,  Alfo  in  the  Interim  until  the  New  Meeting  Houfe  be  built  & 
finifh'd,  M'  John  Bernard  &  Edward  Holyoke  be  the  two  Gentlemen  of  the  Miniftry 
to  help  &  affift  the  Rev'd  M'  Sam'  Cheever  the  Minifter  of  this  Town  in  Preaching  the 
Word  of  God  to  the  Inhabitants  in  their  turns,  And  that  the  faid  M'  Bernard  & 
M'  Holyoke  be  maintain'd  at  the  Town  Charge  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  of  the 
Town  as  formerly,  or  as  can  be  agreed  for :  —  Purfuant  to  which  Articles  under  the 
Countenance  &  Encouragement  of  the  Town  of  Marblehead  by  their  Votes,  the 
Petitioners  have  with  great  Diligence  &  Pains  &  Expence,  raif'd  &  upon  the  matter 
finilhed  a  large,  fair  &  convenient  Meeting  Houfe  or  Church  every  way  fitted  for 
the  Ufe  &  Service  before  mention'd  &  intended,  &  were  under  juft  Hopes  &  Ex- 
peftations  that  their  Fathers,  Brethren  &  Neighbours  of  the  Town  of  Marblehead 
would  according  to  their  good  Beginning  have  gone  on  &  held  out  in  Affifting  & 
Encouraging  their  lawfull  commendable  &  indeed  neceffary  Defign  as  aforefaid.  And 
therefore  it  is  with  great  Unwillingnefs  &  Grief  of  Mind  that  they  are  under  a 
Neceffity  of  laying  their  Complaint  &  Reprefenting  their  Condition  to  the  Great  & 
General  Court,  And  that  at  a  Town-meeting  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Marblehead  on 
the  twenty  (ixth  day  of  September  laft  there  was  Voted  a  Salary  of  Eighty  Pounds 
^  Annum  to  be  paid  to  the  Rev''  M'  John  Bernard  the  chofen  Minifter  of  the  Town, 
fo  long  as  he  remain  &  continue  a  Minifter  there,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  Town 
Treafury  by  Order  of  the  Seleft  Men  of  the  faid  Town,  Againft  which  Votes  the 
Petitioners  for  themfelves  &  their  Aflbciates,  who  are  a  very  confiderable  number, 
offered  two  feveral  Petitions  or  Protefts  in  writing,  one  of  which  was  refuf'd  to  be 
read,  &  the  other  tho'  read,  had  no  Anfwer  made  to  it,  contrary  (as  the  Petitioners 
fuppofe)  not  only  to  Chriftian  Charity,  but  to  the  Rules  of  common  Juftice,  and  the 
Ufage  &  Pradiice  of  Towns  in  fuch  cafes.  So  that  your  Petitioners  have  very  little 
Reafon  to  expeft  any  manner  of  Relief  under  their  deplorable  Circumftances,  unlefs 
it  be  from  the  Hon*"!'  General  Court:  —  Humbly  Reprefenting  (i)  That  not  only  in 
the  Judgment  of  the  neighbouring  Towns  &  People,  But  in  the  Judgment  of  the 
Inhabitants  of  Marblehead  it  felf,  They  are  grown  fo  numerous  as  to  be  able  com- 
fortably to  fill  two  Houfes  for  the  Publick  Worfliip  of  God,  And  that  in  the  manner 
&  method  of  the  Eflabliftied  Churches  &  Congregations  of  New  England.  (2)  That 
the  Petitioners  humbly  hope  &  believe  by  the  favour  of  God  handfomely  &  Com- 
fortably to  fupport  the  Charge  of  the  Miniftry  by  &  among  themfelves,  &  fliall  be 
very  willing  &  thankful  to  be  allowed  fo  to  do.  (3)  That  they  have  always  declar'd 
themfelves  to  be  &  ftill  are  willing  fo  long  as  the  Rev**  M!  Cheever  their  worthy  & 
faithful  Paftour  fliall  live  to  be  at  their  full  Proportion  of  Charge  toward  his 
Honorable  maintenance.  (4)  That  they  humbly  hope  that  the  Hon*".''  Court  will  be 
of  Opinion,  That  fo  foon  &  fo  long  as  they  fliall  fupport  a  Minifter  of  the  Ordi- 
nances of  the  Gofpel  by  &  among  themfelves  at  their  own  fole  Charge  (which  will  be 
very  confiderable)  they  ftiould  not  befides  &  added  to  all  that,  be  oblig'd  to  fupport 
any  Afliftant  or  Succeflbur  to  the  faid  M'  Cheever;  (5)  That  they  doubt  not  but  the 
Hon"'  Court  will  think  it  very  hard  &  unreafonable.  When  they  were  firft  encourag'd 
by  a  Vote  of  the  Town  to  build  a  new  Meeting  Houfe  They  fliould  now  have  that 
Grant  of  the  Town  encumbered  &  in  a  Sort  defeated  by  Laying  a  Burthen  upon  the 
Petitioners  which  was  not  then  fo  much  as  thought  of;  (6)  That  they  fuppofe  it  to 

R  be 


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be  againft  the  Rules  both  of  God  &  Man,  That  when  they  regularly  &  honourably 
fupport  an  Orthodox  Minifter  of  their  own.  They  fhould  be  oblig'd  to  pay  any  Thing 
towards  the  Maintenance  of  a  Minifter  of  another  Church,  &  under  whofe  Miniftry 
they  are  not  to  be.  And  forafmuch  as  there  are  feveral  diftind;  Precinfts  or  Congre- 
gations in  feveral  Towns  in  this  Province,  efpecially  in  Bo/ion,  Where  with  great  Eafe 
Freedom  Juftice  &  Cheerfulnefs  they  maintain  their  feveral  &  refpeftive  Minifters;  — 
That  the  Petitioners  do  humbly  pray  that  the  Hon*"!'  Court  will  be  pleafed  to  take 
their  Cafe  into  Confideration  &  either  make  them  a  diftindl  &  feparate  Parifti  or 
Order  the  whole  Charge  of  the  Minifters  of  M'  Cheever's  Church  as  it  is  called,  &  that 
built  by  the  Petitioners  to  be  aflefs'd  &  laid  in  Common  upon  the  Inhabitants  of  the 
faid  Town  attending  the  faid  Churches,  or  allow  the  Inhabitants  or  People  of  each 
refpeftive  Church  or  Congregation  by  Subfcription  or  Contribution  to  maintain  their 
refpedive  Minifters. 

Ordered,  That  the  Petitioners  ferve  the  Town  o{  Marblehead  with  a  Copy  of  this 
Petition,  That  they  may  fliew  Reafon  (if  any  they  have)  to  this  Court  on  the  feventh 
Day  of  December  next,  why  the  Prayer  thereof  ftiould  not  be  granted. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

The  Survey  of  Ten  thoufand,  two  hundred  &  forty  Acres  of  Land  being  the 
contents  of  Four  miles  Square  lying  at  the  South  Weft  Corner  of  the  Hadly  Town- 
fliip,  &  is  defcrib'd  by  a  Plan  there  of.  And  adjoining  to  the  faid  Townfhip  oi  Hadly 
on  the  North,  on  Conne£licutt  River  Wefterly,  &  on  Springfield  Southerly,  by  John 
Chandler  Jun! 

Ordered,  That  the  faid  Plat  be  accepted,  &  the  Land  therein  contain'd  be  con- 
firm'd  to  the  Town  of  Hadly  as  the  Fulfilment  of  the  Grant  of  Four  Miles  Square 
of  Land  made  to  them  by  the  General  Court  in  May  One  Thoufand  fix  hundred  & 
eighty  three. 

W?  Order  aforefaid  being  pafs'd  in  the  Houfe  of  Reprefenff  was  Read  &  Con- 
curr'd  in  Council. 

Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Charles  Greenfield  of  Amejbury  fetting  forth,  That 
at  the  laft  court  of  Affize  Sc""  holden  at  Salem  in  the  County  of  Effex  in  November 
Inftant  he  difcov'd  &  bro't  to  Juftice  one  Henry  'Trujfel  of  Amejbury  for  Altering 
&  Encreafing  one  of  the  Bills  of  Credit  of  this  Province,  viz',  a  four  fhilling  Bill 
into  a  Forty  fliilling  Bill,  of  which  Crime  the  faid  Henry  Trujfel  was  convided,  For 
which  publick  Service,  he  hop'd  to  have  receiv'd  a  Reward  of  Fifty  Pounds  men- 
tion'd  in  an  Aft  of  this  Province  againft  Counterfeiting  Bills  of  Credit,  But  the 
Hon"'  Judges  of  the  faid  Court  of  Affize  &'  being  of  Opinion  that  the  faid  Reward 
concern'd  only  making  or  altering  counterfeit  Bills  from  off  a  Plate,  The  Petitioner 
makes  Application  to  the  Great  &  General  Court,  Humbly  hoping  they  will  take  his 
fervice  into  Confideration  &  allow  him  fome  Reward  for  it. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefenf"  Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  Fifteen  Pounds  be 
allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  Charles  Greenfield  the  Petitioner  in 
Confideration  of  his  good  fervice  to  the  Publick  mention'd  in  his  Petition :  In 
Council ;  Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

A  Plat  of  Land  containing  Seven  hundred  acres  formerly  granted  to  the  Rev"! 
M'  John  Higginfon,  Beginning  upon  a  Pond  formerly  call'd  Haverhill  Pond,  lately 
called  Policy  Pond,  There  being  fome  White  Birch  Trees  mark'd  H  &  an  Heap  of 
Stones,  one  of  which  Stones  is  alfo  mark  H,  From  thence  running  South  upon  Haverhil 
Line  Seven  hundred  &  thirty  Poles  to  a  Pitch  Pine  ftanding  in  Haverhil  Line,  the 
Top  of  which  is  broken  of[f],  &  is  mark'd  with  two  Hs  &  fome  Stones  fett  about 
it,  one  of  which  is  likewife  mark'd  with  the  Letter  H,  and  then  running  from  thence 
North  Four  hundred  &  fixty  five  Poles,  to  the  Pond  above  mention'd,  Where  is 
a  Hemlock  Tree  mark'd  with  the  Letter  H  the  crofs  way,  &  an  heap  of  Stones  by 

the 


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the  faid  Tree,  w?  is  mark'd  with  the  Letter  H,  and  from  thence  along  the  Pond  to 
the  Bounds  above  mention'd:  —  Upon  which  Piatt  of  Land  the  following  Vote  pafs'd 
in  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent.  July  21,  17 15,  viz'. 

Ordered,  that  the  Land  laid  out  &  protra6led  in  the  Plat  be  confirmed  as  the 
feren  hundred  acres  formerly  Granted  to  the  late  Rev'*  M'  John  Higgin/on,  Provided 
it  entrench  not  upon  any  former  Grant. 

Which  Order  was  this  Day  reviv'd  &  fent  up,  and  In  Council ;  Read  & 
Concur'd. 

Confcnted  to,     W"  Tailer. 


Saturday  Novf  26.  17 15. 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon""  fVilliam  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu.  Gov' 


JVait  Wintrop 
Elijha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'  Sewall 
yojeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinfon 


John  Appleton 
John  Higginjon 
Efq'  Edw'  Eromfield   \  Efq' 

Andrew  Belcher  i 
Nath'  Payne       J 


John  Cujhing 
Nath.  Norden 
John  Clarke 
Addin  Davenport 
Thomas  Fitch 


Efq' 


TN  the  Houfe  of  Fleprefent"* ;  Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  One  hundred  Pounds 
■*■  be  further  allow'd  &  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  D'  Thomas  Oaks,  w.*" 
with  the  Sum  of  Three  hundred  &  fifty  Pounds  heretofore  paid  him  is  in  full  for  his 
fervice  as  Agent  for  this  Province  at  White-Hall  from  December  One  Thoufand  fix 
hundred  &  eighty  nine,  to  Otlober  One  thoufand  fix  hundred  &  ninety  two. 

In  Council;   Read  &  Concur'd; 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Memorial  of  Elijha  Cook  Efq'  of  Bojlon  in  the  County  of 
Suffolk,  Setting  forth,  That  in  the  Month  o(  December  One  Thoufand  fix  hundred  & 
eighty  nine,  The  Won}'^'  Elijha  Cook  Efq'  Father  to  the  Memorialift  was  by  the  then 
General  Court  of  the  Colony  of  the  Maffachujetts  Bay  conftituted  &  appointed  one 
of  their  Agents,  to  tranfadt  &  manage  their  Affairs  at  the  Court  oi  England,  &  in  the 
month  oi  february  following  proceeded  on  his  Voyage  there,  Where  he  continued  in 
that  fervice  till  the  Month  of  OSlober  One  thoufand  fix  hundred  &  ninety  two,  almoft 
three  Years,  All  which  time  to  the  utmoft  of  his  Skill  &  bed  ability,  he  conflantly 
faithfully  &  induftrioufly  ferved  his  Country,  tho  to  the  very  great  hurt  &  damage 
of  his  own  particular  Eftate  by  being  fo  long  from  his  family,  &  confequently  to  his 
Lofs  in  his  Praftice  as  a  Phyfician,  which  he  then  uf 'd  &  apply'd  himfelf  to,  and  in 
as  much  as  he  never  receiv'd  more  than  One  hundred  &  fifty  Pounds,  w!"  is  much 
lefs  than  he  would  have  gotten  in  one  year  had  he  remain'd  at  home  by  his  Pradlice ; 
Praying  the  Hon""''  Court  to  take  the  Premifes  into  their  Confideration,  &  make  fuch 
further  Recompence  &  Satisfaftion  for  his  Father's  Service,  as  they  fiiall  in  their 
great  Prudence  think  meet  &  reafonable. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"'  Refolved,  that  the  fum  of  Three  hundred  Pounds 
be  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  M'  Elijha  Cook  the  Memorialift 
for  the  Heirs  of  Elijha  Cook  Efq'  Dec?  W"  with  the  fum  of  One  hundred  &  fifty 
Pounds  already  paid,  is  in  full  for  the  Service  of  the  Memorialift's  Father  in  his 
Agency  for  this  Province,  from  December  One  thoufand  fix  hundred  &  eighty  nine 
to  October  One  thoufand  and  fix  hundred  &  ninety  two. 

In  Council,  Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  a  Petition  of  feveral  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Eaft  End  of  Taunton 
North  Purchafe,  Setting  forth.  That  it  being  formerly  referved  by  the  General  Court 
in  their  Grant  of  a  Townfhip  that  one  Half  Part  of  Taunton  North  Purchafe  (namely 

the 


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the  Eafterly  Part  thereof  next  to  Bridgewater  fhould  be  &  belong  to  the  Inhabitants 
thereof  to  make  a  diftindt  Plantation  as  foon  as  the  Court  fhould  judge  them  able  & 
fitt  to  have  the  Privilege  of  a  diftindt  Village  or  Plantation  granted  them ;  The 
Petitioners  notwithftanding  their  Poverty  &  the  fmall  number  of  their  Inhabitants 
humbly  Praying  that  they  may  be  formed  into  a  diftind  Town,  &  that  they  may 
have  the  Privilege  of  a  Townftiip  Granted  to  them. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"'  Ordered,  that  Sam'  'thaxter,  Jojiah  Ed/on  &  George 
Leonard  Efq'  be  a  Committee  to  enquire  into  the  State  and  number  of  the  Inhab- 
itants, the  Extent  &  Quality  of  their  Lands,  &  Whether  they  be  fit  to  be  eredled 
into  a  Townfhip  or  Precinft,  And  make  return  to  this  Court  in  May  next,  the 
Petitioners  to  bear  the  Charge  of  the  Committee. 

In  Council;   Read  &  Concur' d. 

Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 

An  Accompt  of  Torn  &  Defaced  Bills  of  Credit  deliver'd  to  the  Committee 
appointed  for  Burning  the  fame. 

962^  —  1  g6  £  6 

9131^  —  2.6  114  3  9 

496^  —  3  74  10  3 

]H—  3-6  119  13 


579  —  4  115  16  - 

1443  —  5  360  15  - 

1970  —  10.  985  -  - 

1878  —  I.  1878  -  - 

1242  —  2.  2484  —  — 

317  —  2.10  792  10  - 

411  —  3-  ^^33  -  - 

^°3%—  5-  =^016  5  - 


10269     ^^     7 


Province  Bills  of  the  New  Impreffion. 

1381^          I.  6     18     3 

94/^          16  719 

895^          2  8     19     - 

75              2  6  976 

45^         3  6     15     9 

36             5  9      -     - 

28            10.  14      -     - 

21^          I.-  21     15     - 

32.-  6      -     - 


89     17     3 
10269     18     7 

/10359     15  10 

Upon  Ace"  of  Bills  Exchang'd  2209.     -       2 

Bills  rec'' for  the  Province  Galley  1582.     7:     6 

Upon  the  Province  Acc°  in  Nett  Bills        6568.     8.      2 

Adv*  thereon  at  5  IP  Cent  328.     8       4 

/10.688      42 

In  Obedience  to  an  Order  of  the  Great  and  General  Court  at  their  Seffions  in 
May  1715.  Appointing  Us  the  Subfcribers  a  Committee  to  take  an  Accompt  of 
torn  &  defaced  Bills  of  Credit  &f  We  have  accordingly  receiv'd  of  M'  Treafurer 
Allen  the  feveral  Bills  of  the  Denominations  mentioned  in  the  within  Accompt, 
amounting  to  the  Sum  of  Ten  thoufand  three  hundred  fifty  nine  Pounds  fifteen 
fhillings  and  ten  pence  at  their  exprefs'd  Value;  All  of  which  Bills  We  have  con- 

fum'd 


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fum'd  to  afhes.  Whereof  fix  thoufand  five  hundred  and  fixty  eight  Pounds  eight 
(hillings  &  two  pence.  Part  of  the  abovefaid  fum  were  deliver'd  us  upon  the  Province 
Acc%  as  being  receiv'd  for  Taxes  Import  &  Excife,  Which  with  the  Adv'  of  5  V  Cent, 
as  they  were  taken  into  the  Treafury,  amount  to  the  Sum  of  Six  Thoufand  eight 
hundred  &  ninety  fix  Pounds  fifteen  fhillings  &  fix  pence,  Alfo  Two  Thoufand  two 
hundred  &  nine  Pounds  &  two  pence  Nett  Bills  as  being  exchang'd  in  the  Treafury, 
And  One  Thoufand  five  hundred  eighty  two  Pounds  feven  fliillings  &  fix  pence  Nett 
Bills,  receiv'd  for  the  Province  Galley,  making  in  the  whole.  Ten  Thoufand  fix 
hundred  eighty  eight  Pounds  four  fhillings  &  two  pence.  As  Witnefs  our  Hands 
this  fifteenth  of  O£lober,  17 15. 

"Thomas  Fitch  W"  Payne 

Adam  Wintrop  Elijha  Cook 

Oliver  Noyes  Cha.  Chambers 

Read  &  Accepted,  and 


John  Clarke 
Addin  Davenport 
Tho.  Hutchinfon 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent' 


Order' d  That  the  Treafurer  be  difcharg'd  of  the  Sum  of  Ten  Thoufand  fix  hun- 
dred eighty  eight  Pounds  four  fhillings  &  two  pence. 
In  Council;    Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer 

Adjourn'd  until  Monday  at  three  o  Clock  in  the  Afternoon. 


Monday  Nov.  28  17 15 


Wait  fFintrop   ^ 
Sam'  Sewall 
Jo/eph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinfon^ 


Prefent  in  Council 
The  Hon"!'  fVilliam  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov' 


Efq' 


John  Appleton 
Andrew  Belcher 
Edw*  Bromfield 
John  Clarke 


Efq' 


Addin  Davenport 
Nath'  Payne 
Tho.  Hutchinfon 
Tho-  Fitch 


Adjourn'd  to  To  Morrow  at  Ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Efq' 


Tuefday  Nov'  28.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 


Wait  Wintrop 
Elijha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'  Sewall 
Elia"  Hutchinfon 
Jo/eph  Lynde 


The  Hon""  William  Tailer  Efqf  Lieu  Gov' 

John  Appleton    ^  John  Clarke 

Andrew  Belcher  I  Addin".  Davenport 

Efq'      Edw^  Bromfield   \  Efq'  Thomas  Hutchinfon 


Nath'  Payne 


Thomas  Fitch 
Edmund  ^incey 


Efq' 


A  Hearing  of  the  Cafe  between  John  Nelfon  Efq'  &  John  Cotta  &'  was  this  day 
had  before  the  whole  Court. 
A  MefTage  from  the  Reprefent'"  by  M'  Remington,  That  the  Houfe  defire  that 
the    Choice  of  Councellours  appointed   this  day  to  be  made,  may  be  deferr'd  to 
Thurfday  next  in  the  Afternoon,  Several  of  their  Members  not  now  attending  by 
reafon  of  the  Extremity  of  the  Weather. 

Upon  Reading  a  Petition  of  William  Williams  of  Weflon  in  the  County  of 
Middlefex  Clerk,  Importing  that  he  humbly  addreffed  the  Great  &  General  Court  or 
Affembly  at  their  Seffion  in  June  lafl,  Praying  that  he  may  be  rewarded  for  his  Ser- 
vice in  attending  upon  the  Gentlemen  Commiflioners  in  their  Journey  to  New  York  in 
the  Service  of  the  Government,  whom  he  ferved  as  their  Chaplain  &  Clerk  &  was  at 

S  extraordinary 


[68] 

extraordinary  Expence  for  an  Horfe  &%  for  fix  or  feven  Weeks  in  the  faid  Service, 
as  appears  more  fully  in  his  Petition  aforefaid,  —  That  his  faid  Petition  happened  tp 
be  read  when  fome  worthy  Members  were  abfent,  who  were  well  acquainted  with  his 
Service,  Humbly  hoping  that  the  General  Court  will  be  pleaf 'd  to  take  his  Cafe  & 
Service  into  Confideration,  &  make  him  fuch  Allowance  as  they  fhall  think  meet ; 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"',  Re/olved,  that  the  fum  of  Ten  Pounds  be  allowed 
&  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  the  Rev"*  M'  William  Williams  in  full  for  his 
Service  mention'd  in  his  Petition. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer, 

Edmund  ^incy  Efq'  took"  the  Oaths  appointed  by  Act  of  Parliament  to  be  taken 
inflead  of  the  Oaths  of  Allegiance  &  Supremacy,  Repeated  &  Subfcrib'd  the  Teft 
or  Declaration,  Took  the  Oath  of  Abjuration  &  the  Councellours  Oath  :  All  which 
Oaths  &  Declarations  were  taken  &  subfcrib'd  by  Nath'.  Payne  Efq'  upon  Thurfday 
laft  the  24'!'  of  this  Inftant. 

Adjourn'd  to  To  Morrow  Morning  at  Ten  o  Clock. 


Wednefday  Nov' 30.  1715. 

Prefent  in  Council. 

The  Hon"."  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov' 


Wait  Wintrop 
Eli/ha  Hutchinjon 
Sam'  Sewall 
Jqfeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinfon 


John  Appleton  ^ 
And'"  Belcher 
Efq'  Edw^  Bromfield 

I/aac  Winjlow 
Nath'.  Payne 


John  Clark 
Addin  Davenport 
>■  Efq'  Thomas  Fitch 

Tho'  Hutchinfon 
Edm^  ^incy 


Efq' 


THe   Hon"'  Lieutenant   Governour  appointed   next  fryday  feven  night  for  the 
nomination  of  Civil  Officers,  And  a  General  Council  was  intimated  for  that 

Purpofe. 

Adjourn'd  to  To  Morrow  at  Ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Thurfday  Dec'  i.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon""  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu.  Govf 


Wait  Wintrop 
Elijha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinfon 
John  Appleton 


hEfq' 


And"  Belcher 
Edw^  Bromfield 
Ifaac  Winjlow 
Nath'.  Payne 
Nath'.  Norden 


Efq' 


John  Cu/king 
John  Clark 
Tho'  Hutchinfon 
Addin  Davenport 
Thomas  Fitch 
Edm^  ^incy 


VEfq' 


UPon  Reading  a  Petition  of  Hugh  Pike.,  Importing  that  in  the  Year  One  thoufand 
{even  hundred  &  feven  being  engaged -in  her  late  Majefty's  &  his  Countrey's 
Service  in  the  Expedition  to  Port  Royal  in  the  Poll  of  an  Enfign  to  the  Hon""  Colo 
Walton,  And  that  in  the  faid  Service  he  was  unhappily  wounded  by  the  Enemy, 
Which  depriv'd  him  of  the  ufe  of  one  of  his  Leggs,  w"  hath  render'd  him  wholly 
uncapable  of  Contributing  any  thing  to  the  Subfiftence  of  him  felf  or  family  for 
diverfe  years  paft,  That  he  has  already  had  fome  Allowance  in  the  nature  of  a 
Penfion,  which  he  is  very  thankful  for,  that  he  is  now  under  Confinem'  in  the 
Prifon  of  Bojlon  for  Debt  in  a  moll  miferable  Condition,  And  that  he  moll  humbly 

Prays 


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Prays  the  Hon''''  Court  will  be  pleaf'd  to  take  his  cafe  into  their  Confideration,  & 
grant  him  fuch  Relief  as  in  their  great  Wifdom  they  (hall  think,  fit. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"',  Refolvedy  that  the  Sum  of  eight  Pounds  be  given  to 
the  Petitioner,  and  that  D'  Ellis  take  care  of  him  in  his  prefent  Exigency. 

In  Council;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

A  Plat  of  the  Townfliip  of  Rutland  Ninety  three  Thoufand  one  hundred  &  fixty 
Acres,  Including  One  thoufand  Acres  for  M'  Sewall  furveyed  by  William  Ward 
Sworn  Surveyor  &  Ephraim  Wilder  of  Lancafter  &  Daniel  Stow  of  Sudbury  Chain  men 
under  Oath  in  the  Month  of  October  One  thoufand  feven  hundred  &  fifteen.  And  is 
defcrib'd  as  follows,  viz',  (a  White  Oak  from  C  to  B  1920  Rods,  —  from  B  to  A  is 
1200  Rods,  from  A  to  F  2340  Rods,  at  F  a  Pine  Tree  &  Stones;  from  F  to  E 
3230  Rods,  at  E  Stones  near  a  little  Oak,  From  E  to  D  4080  Rods,  at  D  an  Afh 
Tree  in  a  Swamp,  from  D  to  C  Run  by  M'  Hayners  3421  Rods. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefenf",  Ordered,  that  the  Land  defcrib'd  &  delineated  in 
the  Plat  prefented  laid  out  &  protra(5led  by  William  Ward  Surveyor  be  allowed  & 
confirm'd  to  be  the  Townfhip  of  Rutland,  and  that  the  Fee  &  Property  thereof  be 
veiled  &  fettled,  Purfuant  to  the  Order  of  this  Court  part  in  February,  Anno  One 
Thoufand  feven  hundred  &  thirteen,  Whereby  the  Town  of  Rutland  vtzs  firft  granted 
Referving  to  the  Province  the  Thoufand  Acres  referv'd  &  laid  out  in  the  faid  Plat  to 
that  End,  and  to  particular  Perfons  fuch  Prior  Grants  as  are  contain'd  therein. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Daniel  Epps  Efq'  Coll.  Adam  Wintrop  &  M'  William  Denijon  a  Committee  of  the 
Reprefenf"  brought  up  the  Votes  of  that  Houfe  for  the  Election  of  Councellour 
to  fill  up  the  Vacancies,  And  with  Sam^  Sewall,  Addin'.  Davenport  Efq'  &  M'  Secretary 
Woodward,  a  Committee  appointed  by  the  Board  attended  the  numbering  &  forting 
the  Votes  of  both  Houfes;   But  the  Eleftion  not  being  finifh'd  at  twice  Voting, 

The  Reprefent"'  fent  a  Meffage  by  M'  William  Payne  &  Cap'  Chambers  Defiring 
that  the  Election  of  Councellours  may  be  referr'd  till  to  Morrow  Morning:  To 
which  the  Board  Concur'd. 

I/aac  Winjlow  Efq'  took  the  Oath  appointed  by  Adl  of  Parliament  to  be  taken 
inllead  of  the  Oaths  of  Allegiance  &  Supremacy,  Repeated  &  Subfcribed  the  Teft 
and  Declaration,  And  took  the  Oath  of  Abjuration  &  the  Councellours  Oath. 

Adjourn'd  unto  To  Morrow  at  Ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Fryday  Dec'  2.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon""  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov' 


Wait  Wintrop 
Elijha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinfon 
John  Appleton 


Efq' 


Andrew  Belcher 
Edw^  Bromfield 
Ifaac  Winjlow 
Nath'.  Payne 
Nath'.  Norden 


Ufq' 


John  Cufhing 
John  Clark 
Addin:  Davenport 
Tho'  Hutchinfon 
Thomas  Fitch 
Edm^  ^incy 


^Efq' 


'T^He  fame  Committee,  w"  was  yefterday  appointed  for  Numbering  &  Sorting  the 
■^  Votes  for  Councellours,  attended  this  day  until  the  Ele6lions  were  finiflied. 
Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Thomas  Wabon  &  Solomon  Thomas  in  Behalf  of 
themfelves  &  all  other  the  Proprietors  &  Inhabitants  of  the  Indian  Plantation  of 
Natick  within  this  Province,  Importing,  That  whereas  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Com- 
mittee for  the  Purchafe  of  the  Lands  of  Moguncoy  having  confummated  that  Matter, 


as 


[7°] 

as  may  appear  under  the  Hands  &  Seals  of  the  Committee  bearing  Date  the  eleventh 
of  OSfober  17 15,  They  do  moft  gratefully  acknowledge  the  Kindnefs  of  thefe  Gentle- 
men to  them  in  that  Concern,  and  as  it  hath  been  intimated  to  them  by  thefe  Gentle- 
men, That  they  fhould  have  their  own  free  Choice  in  the  Nominating  fuch  Gentlemen 
as  fhall  be  appointed  Overfeers  or  Truftees  in  the  Taking  Care  of  &  rendering  to 
them  &  their  Succeflbrs  fuch  yearly  Income  as  they  have  agreed  for  in  the  aforefaid 
Concern  of  Moguncoy  Lands,  Humbly  Praying  that  Samuel  Sewell  Efq'  The  Rev"! 
Mf  John  Leverett  Prefident  of  Harvard  College  &  Major  Thomas  Fitch  may  be 
Truftees  &  Overfeers  for  them. 

The  Sum  to  be  managed  by  the  Truftees  for  Behalf  of  the  faid  Indians  is  four 
hundred  Pounds  in  Bills  of  Credit  on  this  Province. 

In  Council,  Read  &  Ordered  that  the  Prayer  of  the  Petition  be  granted,  And  that 
Mf  Daniel  Oliver  of  Bojion  Merchant  be  added  to  the  Truftees. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent""  Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Cp!  Mathew  Whipple,  John  Whipple,  Mathew 
Whipple  Tertius,  all  of  Ip/wich  within  the  New  Precindl  called  the  Hamlett  in  Behalf 
of  themfelves  &  others.  Praying  that  a  farm  called  Saltonjlals  farm  &  the  neighbouring 
Inhabitants  may  be  fett  off  to  &  made  part  of  the  faid  Precindl: — And  likewife  a 
Petition  of  feveral  of  the  neighbouring  Inhabitants,  Praying  to  be  difmifled  from 
the  Town  of  Ipfwich  &  incorporated  into  the  faid  New  Precin6l. 

Upon  which  two  feveral  Orders  were  pafled  in  the  laft  May  Seffions,  viz'.  One 
upon  the  firft  of  June,  &  the  other  upon  the  fourteenth  of  June. 

In  Council,  This  Day  Read  &  Ordered  that  the  Prayer  of  the  Petition  be  fo  far 
granted.  That  the  farm  call'd  Saltonjlals  farm  &  the  neighbouring  Inhabitants,  who 
have  fupplicated  this  Court  that  it  may  be  fo,  be  fett  off  to  the  New  Precin6l  called 
the  Hamlet,  except  NatH  Adams  who  has  petition'd  the  Contrary.     In  the  Houfe  of 


Reprefenf",  Read  &  Concur'd. 


Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 


Adjourn'd  to  To  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Saturday  Dec!  3.  1715. 


Prefent  in  Council 


The  Hon'''^  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov' 


Wait  Wintrop 
Eli/ha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'  Sew  all 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Elia"  Hutchinfon 
John  Appleton 


Penn  'Town/end 
And""  Belcher 
Edw''  Bromfield 
>  Efq'        Ifaac  Winjlow 
Nath'  Payne 
John  Cujhing 
John  Norden 


John  Clark 
Addin  Davenport 
Thomas  Hutchinfon 
y  Efq'        Thomas  Fitch 
Edmund  ^incy 
Adam  Wintrop 


Efq' 


M' 


■R  Cook  M'  Denifon  &  M'  Bradford ztttndtA  the  Hon""  Lieutenant  Governour  with 
a  Lift  of  the  Names  of  the  four  Perfons  eleded  yefterday  to  be  Councellours 
or  Afliftants  with  this  Province  to  fill  up  the  Vacancies  for  his  Honours  Approba- 
tion in  Writing  under  his  hand.  The  Secretary  attefting  the  faid  Eledions  to  be  duly 
made  by  the  Council  &  Reprefent"" 

His  Honour  fignified  his  Approbation  in  Writing  upon  the  faid  Lift  of  the  four 
Perfons  therein  mention'd;   w*!  are,  viz'. 


Pen  Townfend)  _,.  , 
Nath.  Byfield  ]  ^^^ 


Thomas  Noyes 
Adam  Wintrop 


}Efq! 


The 


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The  Report  of  the  Committee  appointed  to  go  to  Newtown  to  make  Report  of 
the  mofl  fuitable  Place  for  the  Eredling  a  Meeting  Houfe  viz'.  We  the  Committee 
appointed  to  go  to  Newtown  to  determine  &  report  to  the  General  Affembly  the 
moft  fuitable  Place  in  the  s''  Town  for  Erefling  a  Meeting  Houfe  for  the  Inhab- 
itants of  faid  Town,  Having  been  there  on  the  ninth  of  June  Inflant,  Purfuant  to  a 
Vote  of  faid  Town  &  their  Petition,  &  view'd  the  Places  propof'd  by  them  for  the 
End  aforefaid,  are  of  Opinion,  That  the  moft  fuitable  Spot  for  Eredling  a  Meeting 
Houfe  in  the  faid  Town  for  Accommodation  of  the  greateft  Number  of  faid  Inhabit- 
ants is  upon  a  Piece  of  Land  of  Nath'.  Parker's  about  one  hundred  &  twenty  eight 
Rods  Eaft  South  Eaft  near  a  Quarter  of  a  Point  Eafterly  from  the  Center  of  faid 
Town  (according  to  a  Plan  drawn  &  taken  by  M'  Jqfeph  Burnap  Surveyour)  Where 
there  are  feveral  Trees  mark'd  on  faid  Spot. 

Sign'd,  John  Otis  in  Behalf  of  the  Major  Part  of  faid  Committee. 

In  Council,  Read  &  Accepted,  &  Ordered,  that  the  Meeting  Houfe  remain  where 
it  now  is  for  the  Space  of  Five  Years,  and  that  then  a  new  Meeting  Houfe  be 
eredled  *  in  fuch  Place  near  the  Center  of  the  Town,  as  the  Town  fhall  then  agree 
upon. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"*,  Read  &  Concur'd  with  an  Amendment* 

Confented  to,     WT  Tapler. 

Upon  Reading  a  Petition  of  Jofeph  Bramhal  oi  Bojlon  Cooper,  Importing,  that  he 
was  imprefs'd  in  to  the  Service  while  he  was  an  Apprentice  in  S'  fFilliam  Phip/'s  Gov- 
ernm'.  &  afterwards  was  a  Soldier  twelve  Years  at  the  Caftle,  Having  been  always  in 
the  Service  till  he  was  difcharged  about  fifteen  months  fince,  that  by  his  Hardfliips  in 
the  Service  he  contrafted  the  Diftemper  call'd  the  Dry-Belly-ach,  Whereby  he  has  for 
the  Space  of  ten  months  part  loft  the  Ufe  of  his  Limbs  in  a  great  meafure,  &  has 
been  Bed-ridden  for  eleven  months  &  unable  to  help  himfelf,  and  has  fpent  all  his 
Subftance  upon  Doftors  &  Medicines;  Therefore  moft  humbly  Praying  that  the 
Court  will  be  pleaf 'd  to  compaftionate  his  diftrefs'd  Condition. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"'  Refohed,  That  the  Sum  of  Five  Pounds  be  allowed 
&  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  towards  the  Relief  of  the  Petitioner  &  that  Coll 
Jdam  JVintrop  be  defir'd  to  receive  the  fame,  &  expend  it  as  he  ftiall  think  moft  for 
the  Benefit  of  the  Petitioner. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  John  Staples  Treafurer  of  the  Town  of  Newtown, 
Importing,  That  whereas  the  Inhabitants  of  the  faid  Town  did  agree  with  the  Rev.'' 
M'  Cotton  to  give  him  One  hundred  &  fifty  Pounds  in  Money  for  his  Settlement, 
That  notwithftanding  the  General  Court  had  given  Orders  to  fett  of  fix  families  to 
the  new  Precindt  in  Roxbury  fo  long  as  they  fliould  contribute  there.  That  My  Nath' 
Healy  who  is  one  of  the  fix  families  did  publickly  declare  that  he  did  not  apprehend 
that  thefe  families  were  by  the  General  Court  Order  freed  from  paying  the  Settlement 
Rate,  but  only  from  the  Yearly  Salary,  That  the  faid  Mf  Healy  being  rated  accord- 
ingly hath  freely  paid  his  Proportion.  But  that  fVilliam  Ward  &  fome  others  of  the 
faid  fix  families  do  abfolutely  refufe  to  pay  their  Proportion  of  the  faid  Rate,  By 
which  means  the  faid  Mf  Cotton  has  been  kept  out  of  his  juft  Right  above  ten  months. 
That  he  humbly  craves  the  opinion  of  the  General  Court  Whether  thofe  fix  families 
fett  of  to  Roxbury  ftiall  be  oblig'd  to  pay  the  faid  Settlem!  Rate  or  not.  And  whether 
a  certain  fum  of  Money  given  to  a  Minifter  to  fettle  himfelf  withal  be  a  proper  & 
fufficient  Settlement. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefenf"  Read  &  Refolved  that  the  faid  fix  families  who  are 
allowed  to  attend  the  Worfliip  of  God  in  Roxbury  are  difmifs'd  from  the  Charge  of 
the  Annual  Maintenance  of  the  Miniftry  at  Newtown  untl  this  Court  give  further 
Order  &  from  no  other  Town  Charges ;  And  that  whereas  the  Town  agree  to 
give  a  Sum  of  money^to    their  Minifter  to  purchafe  for  himfelf  a  Settlement  the 

T  Inhabitants 


[72] 


Inhabitants   are    rateable    thereto:   And    equally  as    if  the  Town    had    made  fuch 
Purchafe. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  fVilliam  Spooner,  Jabez  Delane,  Caleb  Blackwell,  & 
others  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  oi Dartmouth,  importing,  That  whereas  M.'  Samuel 
Hunt  has  been  near  feven  years  Minifter  of  the  faid  Town  to  their  great  Satisfadtion 
upon  a  very  flender  Salary,  That  all  his  Hearers  are  not  able  to  allow  him  more 
than  Thirty  Pounds,  That  upon  greater  Encouragements  to  him  from  other  Towns 
make  them  apprehenfive  of  his  leaving  them  deftitute  of  a  Minifter :  Humbly  pray- 
ing, that  the  Great  &  General  Court  would  pleafe  to  compaffionate  their  Cafe,  &  to 
encourage  M'  Hunt  to  remain  among  them  by  Giving  fuch  an  Allowance  as  they 
fhall  fee  meet. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"'  June  15.  1715. 

Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  Twenty  Pounds  be  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  Pub- 
lick  Treafury  towards  the  maintenance  of  the  Miniftry  of  Dartmouth  for  the  Year 
enfuing. 

Dec'.  I .  Refolved,  that  the  Vote  above  be  revived  &  fent  up  for  Concurrence ; 
The  Year  to  begin  in  June. 

In  Council  Dec'  3.  17 15.     Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

An  Accompt  brought  in  by  Jofeph  Marion  of  Tranfcribing  feveral  Bills  in  the  laft 
May  July  &  Auguft  Seflions  &  Engrofling  the  fame,  as  alfo  for  Engroffing  the 
Journal  of  the  Houfe  of  ReprefentT  in  their  feveral  Seflions  in  the  Months  of  May, 
July  &  Auguft  in  the  prefcnt  Year  17 15. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"?',  Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  twelve  Pounds,  fifteen 
{hillings  &  three  pence  be  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  Jofeph 
Marion  to  difcharge  his  Accompt. 

In  Council,  Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Memorial  of  Jofeph  Marion  importing.  That  he  was  imploy'd 
almoft  four  years  as  Clerk  to  the  Hon'''"  Ifaac  Addington  Efq'  late  Secry  of  this 
Province,  &  that  during  the  time  of  the  late  Expedition  to  Canada  (in  an  efpecial 
manner)  with  all  Diligence  &  Fidelity  attended  the  faid  Office  by  Difpatching  much 
Bufinefs  in  the  Affairs  of  the  Gov!  upon  that  extraordinary  Occafion,  That  upon 
M'  Addinton's  Indifpofition,  he  was  direfted  to  attend  at  the  Council  Board,  w!"  ac- 
cordingly he  did.  And  by  Order  of  the  Governour  &  Council,  aflifted  in  July  laft  paft 
in  difpatching  the  publick  Bufinefs  upon  the  late  Rupture  with  the  Indians,  That  the 
Memorialift  never  receiv'd  more  than  his  ordinary  Allowance  of  two  ftiillings  & 
eight  pence  per  Diem,  nor  any  confideration  for  his  Service  in  attending  at  Council 
Board,  Humbly  Praying  that  the  General  Court  will  confider  his  fervice,  &  make 
fuch  Allowance  as  they  fhall  fee  meet. 

In  the  Houfe  of  ReprefentT,  Refolved,  That  the  fum  of  Ten  Pounds  be  allowed 
&  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  Jofeph  Marion  the  Memorialift  in  full  for  his 
Service  fett  forth  in  his  Memorial. 

In  Council ;    Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer 

Penn  Town/end  &  Adam  Wintrop  Efq'  being  eledted  Councellours  of  this  Province, 
feverally  took  the  Oaths  appointed  by  A6t  of  Parliament  to  be  taken  inftead  of  the 
Oaths  of  Allegiance  &  Supremacy,  Repeated  &  Subfcrib'd  the  Teft  or  Declaration,  & 
took  the  Oath  of  Abjuration  &  the  Councellour's  Oath. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Jofiah  Whitcomb  of  Lancafter,  importing,  That 
whereas  the  Great  &  General  Court  or  Aflembly  at  the  Seflion  in  0£t'  17 14,  in  con- 
fideration that  the  Land  called  Nafkoba  Land  then  ordered  to  be  made  a  Townftiip 

was 


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OF  THF 


was  purchaf'd  of  the  Indians  one  Half  by  M'  Bulkley  &  M'  Henchman,  &  the  other 
half  by  fVhetcomb  (the  Petitioner,  who  was  fuppof'd  to  be  dead  as  he  is  inform'd) 
And  that  one  Powers  did  order  that  the  faid  Purchafe  be  confirm'd  to  the  Children 
of  the  faid  Bulkley  iVhetcomb  &  Powers  &  to  Cpt.  Robert  Mears  Aflignee  of  M' 
Henchman  according  to  their  refpedlive  Proportions,  as  by  the  Copy  of  the  Order  of 
Confirmation  of  the  General  Court  will  more  fully  appear.  Humbly  Praying  that 
the  General  Court  will  pleafe  to  revoke  the  Confirmation  or  Grant  made  to  his  Chil- 
dren, &  confirm  to  him  his  fourth  part  of  the  faid  Land,  that  he  may  enjoy  what  he 
honeflly  purchaPd,  &  that  he  may  have  Liberty  to  make  Difpolition  thereof  accord- 
ing to  his  own  Will  &  Pleafure. 

In  Council,  Read  &  Confented  to,  that  the  Prayer  of  the  within  Petition  be 
granted,  and  Ordered  that  the  name  of  the  Townfliip  be  henceforth  called  Littleton:  — 
In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"',  Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f,  Ordered,  That  Cp!  Noyes,  M'  Cook,  M'  Remington, 
Coll.  Thaxter,  M.'.  Denifon  &  Cp'  Chambers  with  fuch  as  the  Hon"''  Board  fhall 
appoint  be  a  Committee  to  prepare  &  lay  before  the  Court  a  Draught  of  an 
humble  Addrefs  to  his  Majefty,  Humbly  entreating  his  Royal  favour  upon  the 
following  Heads,  viz'.  That  the  Charter  Privileges  of  this  his  Majefty's  Province  may 
be  preferved :  —  That  the  Raifing  &  Manufacturing  Naval  Stores  in  this  Province 
may  be  encouraged  —  That  the  Mifcheifs  threatened  to  thefe  His  Majesfty's  Planta- 
tions by  the  growing  Settlements  of  the  French  at  Cape  Breton  may  be  prevented. 

In  Council;  Read  &  Concur'd,  &  Ordered  That  Samuel  Sewall,  John  Clark, 
Addin'  Davenport  Efq?  &  M'  Secry  Woodward  be  added  to  the  Committee  to 
prepare  the  Addrefs. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd  unto  Monday  at  three  o'Clock  in  the  Afternoon. 


Monday  Dec!  5.  1715. 


Prefent  in  Council 


The  Hon""  William  Tailer  Efq.'  Lieu.  Govern? 


Wait  Wintrop 
Elijha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli'  Hutchinfon 
John  Higgin/on 
Penn  'Town/end 


And"  Belcher 
Edw''  Bromfield 
Ifaac  Winjlow 
►  Efq'        John  Cujhing 
Nath'  Payne 
Benj'  Lynde 


Nath  Harden 
John  Clark 
Addin:  Davenport 
^  Efq'        Tho:  Hutchinfon 
Thomas  Fitch 
Edmund  ^incy 
Adam  Wintrop. 


i^Efq' 


TTPon  Reading  a  Petition  of  Daniel  Pawning  Keeper  of  the  Powder  Houfe  in 
^  Bojion,  Importing  that  for  fix  years  part  he  has  ferv'd  as  Keeper  of  the  Powder 
Houfe  in  Bojion,  &  conftantly  attended  the  fame  both  in  Receiving  &  Delivering 
out  Powder,  at  the  Times  limited  &  direfted  by  the  Governour's  Inflruftions  to 
him,  w"!  is  upon  Mondays,  Wednefdays  &  Frydays,  weekly  from  the  firfl  o^  March 
to  the  firft  of  November  from  ten  o  Clock  to  twelve  in  the  forenoon,  that  notwith- 
flanding  his  ftri(5l  Obfervance  of  his  Inftruftions,  He  finds  by  Experience  that  the 
time  limited  is  not  fufficient,  many  Perfons  coming  in  other  Seafons,  whereby  his  time 
is  principally  taken  up  in  that  Service  &  the  Province  Stock  of  Powder  daily  increaf- 
ing  from  the  Impoft  Office,  &  other  Quantitys  of  the  Merchants  Powder  being  now 
Houfed  &  which  he  has  himfelf  turn'd  once  a  month.  That  the  Quantity  of  Powder 
is  very  great  &  daily  increafing,  w";  will  put  him  under  the  Neceffity  of  Hiring  a  Perfon 
to  aflift  him  in  Turning  it,  w".  will  much  leffen  his  Salary.     Humbly  Praying  that 

the 


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the  General  Court  will  pleafe  to  confider  the  Premifes  &  either  enlarge  his  Salary  or 
give  Diredlions  for  feme  fees  to  be  paid  by  fuch  Perfons  as  fhall  attend  at  the 
appointed  Hours. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Ordered  That  the  Petitioner  be  allowed  to  demand 
&  take  the  Sum  of  Jix  pence  for  every  fingle  Barrel,  Half  Barrel,  or  Quarter  of  a 
Barrel  of  Powder  deliver'd  out  of  the  Time  order'd  by  this  Court  for  his  Attendance* 
For  two  Barrels  one  Shilling,  &  for  any  greater  Quantity  than  three  Barrels  Two 
Shillings  :   In  Council.     Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 

A  Plat  of  One  Thoufand  Acres  of  Land  purchaf'd  by  the  Rever'd  John  Eliot 
Clerk,  of  Roxbury  Dec*!,  of  Woottonookin  &  Nahan  the  twenty  feventh  of  September, 
1655,  &  Confirm'd  &  Allowed  by  the  General  Affembly  of  the  Province  of  the 
Maffachufetts-Bay  to  fuch  of  the  defcendants  of  the  faid  John  Eliot  as  are  legally 
entituled  to  the  fame  on  the  17  &  11  of  ^une,  1714,  as  of  Record  appears;  Which 
faid  Thoufand  Acres  of  Land  lies  Southward  of  &  contiguous  to  the  Townfliip  of 
Brookfield  alias  ^aboag.  It  begins  at  a  Popple  Tree  mark'd  &  an  Heap  of  Stones 
about  it  about  two  Perch  from  a  Pond  called  Pookookappoy,  And  thence  runs  by  the 
Needle  of  the  Surveying  Inflrument  Weft  27°.  00'  North  402  Perch  to  the  Stake  & 
Heap  of  Stones  on  the  Eaftward  Side  of  a  Hill,  And  then  South  5°.  00'  Weft  400 
Perches  to  a  large  Heap  of  Stones  to  the  Weft  ward  Side  of  a  Ridge  of  Rocks,  From 
thence  Eaft  27°,  00'  Degrees  South  460  Perch,  &  from  thence  North  3°.  00'  Weft 
428  Perch  to  the  Corner  firft  mentioned,  as  is  defcrib'd  by  the  Plat. 
Surveyed  by  John  Chandler,  Jun'  Surveyor. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f ;  Ordered,  that  the  Plat  be  accepted,  and  the  Land 
therein  defcrib'd  be  confirm'd  to  the  Defcendants  of  the  late  Reverend  John  Eliot 
Dec?,  Purfuant  to  the  Vote  of  this  Court  pafs'd  for  that  End  at  their  Seflions  in 
June  17 14. 

In  Council;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer, 

Adjourn'd  unto  To  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Tuefday  Dec'  6.  1715 


Prefent  in  Council 


The  Hon"''  JVilliam  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu.  Govern' 


Elijka  Hutchinfon 
Samuel  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinfon 
Penn  Town/end 
John  Higginfon 
Nath  Byjield 


Andr  Belcher 
Edw*  Bromfield 
Ifaac  Winjlow 
'  Efq'         John  Cujhing 
Nath'.  Payne 
Nath'  Norden 
John  Otis 


Benj".  Lynde 
John  Clark 
Addin".  Davenport 
>  Efq'  Th&  Hutchin/on 

Thomas  Fitch 
Edmund  ^incy 
Adam  JVintrop. 


Efq' 


T  TPon  Reading  a  Petition  of  Martin  Kellog,  Importing,  That  being  an  Inhabitant 
^-^  of  the  Town  of  Deerfield  in  the  Time  of  the  great  Deftru6lion  of  it  by  the 
French  &  Indians  about  twelve  years  fince,  &  a  great  Sufferer  both  in  the  Lofs  of 
his  Eftate  &  in  the  Hardfhips  of  a  tedious  &  long  Captivity,  from  which  by  a 
dangerous  Adventure  he  efcaped,  &  has  fince  been  in  the  Service  &  at  all  times 
fhew'd  himfelf  ready  to  ferve  his  Country,  And  humbly  Praying  that  the  General 
Court  will  be  pleaf'd  to  confider  his  Circumftances,  and  make  him  fuch  Recompence 
as  they  fhall  think  meet. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'",  Refohed,  that  the  Sum  of  Ten  Pounds  be  allowed 

& 


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&  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  Martin  Kellog  the  Petitioner  in  Confideration 
of  his  uncommon  Bravery  &  Suffering  in  the  Publick  Service. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

A  Petition  of  Jofeph  Hill  being  twice  read  was  order'd  to  be  difmifs'd. 

John  Otis  Efq'  took  the  Oaths  appointed  by  A61  of  Parliament  to  be  taken 
inftead  of  the  Oaths  of  Allegiance  &  Supremacy,  Repeated  &  Subfcrib'd  the  Teft  or 
Declaration,  &  took  the  Oath  of  Abjuration,  &  the  Councellours  Oath. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Voted  that  the  Dire(5lion  &  Order  of  this  Court 
Pafs'd  at  their  Seffion  06lob'  1712,  for  the  Maintenance  of  the  Miniftry  in  the  Town 
of  IVatertown  be  punctually  obferv'd  &  effedlually  executed  without  any  farther 
Delay :  And  in  as  much  as  the  Seledlmen,  Afleffors  &  other  Town  Officers  in  Com- 
bination with  the  Major  Part  of  the  Inhabitants  at  a  Town  Meeting  Janu  27.  1714 
did  in  manifeft  Contempt  of  the  Authority  of  this  Govern!  Vote  a  Non-Compliance 
with  this  Order,  &  do  to  this  day  juftifie  themfelves  in  their  open  &  vile  Pra(5lice. 

Be  it  therefore  Refolved  that  the  Seledl  Men  &  Afleffors  fhall  forfeit  &  pay  the 
Sum  of  Fifty  Pounds,  Unles  the  Money  which  is  or  ought  to  have  been  collefled  be 
appropriated  to  the  Ufes  therein  mention'd,  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  January 
next,  and  the  Sum  of  Twenty  Pounds  per  Month  till  the  fame  be  accomplifh'd  and 
they  difcharged  by  each  of  the  Minifters,  to  be  recovered  by  Bill  Plaint  or  Informa- 
tion in  any  Court. 

In  Council,  Read  three  feveral  times  &  Non-Concur'd. 

In  Council,  Ordered  that  Samuel  Sewall,  Benjamin  Lynde  &  John  Clark  Efq?  be  a 
Committee  to  prepare  &  draw  up  a  Report  upon  the  Affair  of  Watertown,  &  prefent 
it  to  the  Board  as  foon  as  may  be. 

Upon  Reading  a  Petition  of  Eli/ha  Hedge,  John  Smith  Son  &  Heir  to  Samuel 
Smith  late  of  Eea/ham  Dec'!  David  Melvil  &  Hugh  Stuart  of  Monomoy  alias  Chatham^ 
Importing  that  whereas  they  did  in  the  year  1694  purchafe  of  the  Indians  John 
^qfon  &  Jofephus  ^afon  of  Monomoy  alias  Chatham  in  the  County  of  Barnjlable,  a 
certain  Beach  commonly  called  Monomoy  Beach  lying  Eaftward  of  faid  Monomoy,  with 
feveral  Parcells  of  Meadow  or  Sedge  Ground  lying  adjacent  thereunto,  as  may  be 
feen  by  an  Inftrument  of  Conveyance  under  the  Hands  &  Seals  of  the  faid  John 
Sluafon  &  Jofephus  Sluafon,  w"!  faid  Meadow  &  Beach  was  never  as  they  can  learn  by 
the  General  Court  granted  to  any  Perfons  whatfoever,  And  therefore  they  thought 
they  might  with  fafety  purchafe  the  fame.  It  being  no  way  to  the  Prejudice  of  the 
faid  Indians  to  fell  a  Beach,  which  was  no  way  likely  to  be  profitable  to  them.  That 
the  faid  Purchafe  was  made  before  any  Law  of  this  Province  was  made  to  the  Con- 
trary, That  they  have  for  many  years  quietly  enjoyed  &  poffefs'd  the  faid  Beach 
with  its  Appurtenances,  &  have  fince  fold  and  made  Conveyances  of  a  confiderable 
Part  of  the  faid  Beach,  to  other  Perfons,  who  have  quietly  poffefs'd  the  fame  without 
any  manifell  Diflike  to  the  Indians,  yet  notwithflanding  fome  Englifh  do  trefpafs 
upon  the  faid  Beach  by  turning  over  Horfes  &  Cattle  to  graze  thereon,  &  they  alfo 
molleft  &  difturb  the  Perfons  to  whom  it  was  fold,  Whereby  great  Inconvenience  & 
Damage  is  like  to  enfue  to  your  Petitioners  unlefs  timely  prevented ;  Humbly 
Praying  that  the  General  Court  will  pleafe  to  take  this  Matter  into  Confideration, 
&  relieve  them  by  Confirming  a  Grant  of  the  (aid  Beach  with  its  Appurtenances  which 
are  fpecified  in  the  Deed  of  Sale  made  to  them  by  John  &  Jofephus  ^ajon. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Ordered,  That  this  Petition  be  continued  until  the 
next  May  Seflion,  and  that  in  the  mean  time  Publick  Notice  be  given  by  the  Peti- 
tioners in  the  Town  of  Chatham,  That  if  any  Perfons  have  any  reafonable  Obje(5tion 
to  make,  they  may  then  be  heard. 

In  Council,  Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     V^"  Tailer. 

An  AS  in  Addition  to  an  AS  for  ere&ing  a  Powder  Houfe  in  Bofton :  Pafs'd  by  the 
Reprefent'!*  U  ju 


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In  Council :   Read  three  feveral  times  &  Pafs'd  to  be  engrofs'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Zecheriah  Tuthil  Lieu'  &  Mafter  Gunner  of  His 
Majefty's  Caflle  William,  Importing,  That  in  Sundry  Petitions  to  the  Hon*"!'  General 
Court  he  fuppof 'd  confiderable  Arrears  due  to  him  by  an  Eflablifliment  made  &  pafs'd 
in  the  Year  1700.  But  fince  is  inform'd  that  by  a  Refolve  paft  by  the  General  Court 
the  firft  day  of  December  1705,  It  was  intended  that  the  faid  Eftablifhm'  fliould 
not  continue,  but  for  the  future,  That  the  Offices  of  Lieutenant  &  Mafter  Gunner 
fliould  be  in  two  fuitable  Perfons,  And  that  the  Lieutenant  fliouJd  receive  out  of 
the  publiclc  Treafury  the  Sum  of  Sixty  Pounds  ^  Annum,  &  that  according  thereto 
he  has  been  paid,  and  now  he  Humbly  Prays  that  for  the  Year  &  ten  Months  before 
that  Refolve  was  made.  He  may  receive  his  Arrears  then  due,  w?  amounts  to  the  Sum 
of  Sixty  five  Pounds  nineteen  fhillings  &  fix  pence,  He  having  receiv'd  no  more  than 
Forty  Pounds  for  his  firft  Years  Service,  &  after  the  Rate  of  Fifty  Pounds  for  his 
fecond  Year;  Humbly  Praying,  That  the  General  Court  will  pleafe  to  confider  his 
Service  &  make  fuch  Allowance  as  they  ftiall  think  meet. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f ;  Whereas  the  General  Court  at  their  Seflion  in 
May  1700,  Refolved  that  the  Lieutenant  of  the  Caftle  on  Cajlle  IJland  performing 
the  Duty  of  Lieutenant  &  Gunner  fliould  be  paid  out  of  the  publick  Treafury 
Eighty  Pounds  per  Annum,  And  in  as  much  as  in  December  1705.  The  Court  did 
again  Refolve  that  the  Office  of  Lieutenant  &  Gunner  fliould  be  in  two  Perfons ; 

Voted  That  the  Sum  of  Sixty  five  Pounds  nineteen  Shillings  &  fix  pence  be 
allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  publick  Treafury  to  the  Petitioner,  He  having  no  Pretence 
or  Claim  to  any  more  by  reafon  of  the  laft  Refolve,  altho  he  may  have  fince  that 
perform'd  the  Duty  of  Lieuten!  &  Gunner. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd  to  To  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Wednefday  Decem.  7.  1715 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon"'  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu.  Gov' 


Wait  Wintrop 
Elijha  Hutchinfon 
Samuel  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinfon 
Penn  Town/end 
Nathl  Byfield 


John  Higginfon 
And^  Belcher 
Edw^  Bromfield 
Efq'      Ifaac  Winjlow 
John  Cujhing 
John  Otis 
Nath'.  Norden 


BenJ"  Lynde 
John  Clark 
Addin:  Davenport 
>  Efq'       Thomas  Fitch  V  Efq' 

Edmund  ^incy, 
Thomas  Hutchinfon , 
Adam  Wintrop. 


A  Hearing  was  had  before  the  whole  Court  upon  the  Petition  of  John  Legg  Efq'  & 
feveral  others  of  the  Town  of  Marblehead. 
A  Hearing  was  had  before  the  whole  Court  upon  the  Petition  of  the  Eaftern  Part 
of  the  Town  of  Bridgewater  for  a  new  Meeting  Houfe. 

In  Council,  Ordered,  That  John  Cujhing  &  Edmund  ^incy  Efq'.'  with  fuch  as  the 
Reprefenf"  ftiall  joyn  with  them  be  a  Committee  to  repair  to  Bridgewater  &  view  the 
Town  &  confider  of  the  moft  convenient  Place  for  Erefting  a  new  Meeting  Houfe, 
Having  a  Regard  to  the  Suggeftion  of  the  Town,  That  there  will  foon  be  need  of 
a  third  meeting  Houfe;  and  make  Report  to  this  Court  at  their  next  Seflion,  Unlefs 
the  Town  in  the  mean  time  agree  the  matter  among  themfelves.  The  Town  to  be  at 
the  Charge  of  the  Committee. 

In 


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In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'";    Read  &  Concur'd,  &  Cpl  George  Leonard^  Cp! 
Henry  Hodge  &  Cpt.  Jacob  Thomfon  are  join'd  with  the  Compt? 
In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd  unto  to  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Thurfday  Dec'  8.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 
The  Hon""  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov' 


Wait  Wintrop 
Eli/ha  Hutchinjon 
Sam'  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinjon 
Penn  'Town/end 


Nath.  Byfield     ■ 
John  Higgin/on 
And""  Belcher 
Efq'         Edw'  Bromfield 
Ifaac  Winjlow 
John  Cujhing 
Benj'  Lynde 


John  Clark  •\ 

Addin:  Davenport 
Tho'  Hutchinfon 
►  Efq'         Thomas  Fitch 
Edmi  ^incy 
Adam  Wintrop 


Efq' 


AN  Aft  entituled  An  A51   to  prevent  the    Opprejffion  of  Debtors    Pafs'd  by    the 
Reprefenf" 
In  Council ;   Read  three  feveral  times  &  Concur'd  to  be  Engrofs'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd  unto  to  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Fryday  Dec'  9.  17 15. 


Prefent  in  Council 


The  Hon"!'  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu.  Govern: 


Wait  Wintrop 

Jofeph  Lynde 

Eli"  Hutchinfon 

Penn  Townfend  )■  Efq' 

John  Appleton 

Nath'.  Byfield 

John  Higginfon 


Eli/ka  Hutchinfon 
And"-  Belcher 
Edw^  Bromfield 
John  Cufking 
John  Otis 
Nath'.  Norden 
Adam  Wintrop 


Sam.  Sewall 
Benj'  Lynde 
John  Clark 
y  Efq'        Addin  Davenport 
Thomas  Hutchinfon 
Thomas  Fitch 
Edm''  ^incy 


Efq' 


TN  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'!'  Voted,  that  Nathaniel  Payne  Efq',  Mefs"  Mofes  Reed 
"*•  &  John  Rogers  be  a  Committee  to  confider  and  compute  the  Charge  of  a  High 
Way  to  Pautuckett  Bridge  &  lay  the  fame  before  this  Court ;  and  that  the  further 
Confideration  of  the  Account  of  building  of  the  faid  Bridge  be  defer'd  until  the 
Vouchers  thereof  be  produced,  or  the  faid  Accompt  be  return'd,  examined  &  allowed 
by  the  Goverm!  of  Rhoade  Ifland,  neither  of  which  are  yet  done. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Hugh  Adams  Clerk  of  Chatham  in  the  County  of 
Barnjlable,  Importing  that  the  Seleft  Men  of  the  Town  of  Chatham  have  refufed  to 
fee  colle6ted  his  Rate  for  this  Year  according  to  the  Towns  firm  &  unanimous  Agree- 
ment with  him.  That  he  &  his  family  are  like  to  be  opprefs'd  for  want  of  it.  That 
he  made  complaint  &  Application  to  the  Hon"l'  Juftices  of  the  Court  at  Barnjlable  at 
their  laft  SelTion  in  OEtober  lafl,  but  had  no  Redrefs  otherwife  than  an  Order  for  an 
Ecclefiaftical  Council  of  the  three  next  neighbouring  Minifters  of  Eafiham,  Harwich 

& 


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&  Tarmouth  with  their  Delegate ;  which  Council  accordingly  mett,  and  advif'd  fo 
contrary  to  his  Expedlations  that  he  was  immediately  conftrained  to  appeal  to  another 
Ecclefiafticall  Council,  Humbly  Requefting,  Firft,  That  the  Petition  of  his  friendly 
Auditors  may  be  heard  &  granted,  &  that  he  be  continued  in  his  Miniftry  untill 
another  Council  be  obtain'd ;  Secondly,  That  the  next  Ecclefiaftical  Council  may 
confift  of  the  Rev?  Minifters  &  Meffengers  of  the  Churches  oi  Plymouth,  Duxborough, 
Majhfield  &  Upper  Scituate.  Thirdly,  That  for  his  immediate  fupply  Thomas  Atkins 
his  Neighbour  may  be  authorifed  by  Warrant  to  make  &  colledt  his  Rate  for  this 
Year  according  to  Agreement.  Fourthly,  That  the  Hon''.''  the  Juftices  of  the  Court 
of  the  County  of  Barnjlable  may  be  direfted  to  hear  his  juft  Complaints  againft  feveral 
of  his  defaming  Neighbours:  Fifthly,  That  the  prefent  Tavern  Keeper  may  no  longer 
be  licenced  : 

In  Council ;  Read  &  Ordered,  That  the  Prayer  of  the  Petitioner  be  fo  far  granted, 
as  that  he  be  recommended  to  the  Quarter  Seflions  of  the  County  of  Barnjlable,  and 
that  they  give  order  for  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Chatham  to  pay  the  Peti- 
tioner his  due  as  per  Agreement,  until  he  be  regularly  difmifs'd. 

Adjourn'd  unto  to  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Saturday  Dec'  lo.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council 


The  Hon""  JVilliam  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov' 


Wait  Wintrop 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchin/on 
Penn  Town/end 
John  Appleton 
Nath'.  Byfield 
John  Higginfon 


Eli/ha  Hutchin/on 
Andrew  Belcher 
Edw''  Bromfield 
Efq';        John  Cufhing 
Nath  Norden 
Benj'  Lynde 


Sam'  Sewall 
John  Clark 
Addin  Davenport 
K  Efq'         Tho'  Hutchin/on 
Thomas  Fitch 
Edmund  ^incy 
Adam  Wintrop. 


Efq' 


A  N  Aft  for  Reviving  &  further  Continuing  an  Ad,  entitled  An  A£l  to  enable 
•*■  ^  Creditors  to  receive  their  juji  Debts  out  0/  the  Effe£ls  0/  their  ab/ent  &  ab/conding 
Debtors,  Made  and  Pafs'd  by  the  Great  &  General  Court  or  Affembly  at  their 
Seflions  upon  the  twenty  lixth  Day  of  May  1708,  in  the  feventh  Year  of  the  Reign 
of  her  late  Majefty  Queen  Ann:  Pafs'd  by  the  ReprefentT  In  Council;  Read  three 
feveral  times  &  concur'd  to  be  engroft. 

Confented,     W"  Tailer. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Reprefent'"  by  M'  William  Payne,  Cpt.  Noyes,  M'  Cook, 
M.'  Hutchin/on  &  Samuel  Thaxter  Efq',  That  the  Houfe  defire  the  Concurrence  of 
the  Board  in  the  Choice  of  an  Attorney  Gen"  upon  Wednefday  next. 

An  A£i  in  /urther  Addition  to  an  A£t  /or  Encouraging  the  killing  0/  Wolves  made 
in  the  fifth  Year  of  the  Reign  of  King  William  &  Queen  Mary.  Pafs'd  by  the 
Reprefenff 

In  Council;   Read  three  feveral  times  &  Concur'd  to  be  engroft. 

Confented  to,     W*"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Roger  Billing  of  Dorche/ler,  Jonathan  Gulliver  of 
Milton,  &  John  Billings  of  Dorchejler  aforefaid,  in  behalf  of  a  blind  Indian  man 
called  Thomas  Oucuncanog,  aged  above  fixty  years,  Refiding  at  the  Dwelling  Houfe 
oi  Roger  Billing  aforefaid,  Importing,  that  the  faid  Indian  was  born  in  Brantrey,  & 
has  liv'd  the  greateft  part  of  his  time  in  &  about  it,  and  fince  Philips  War  has  been 
a  faithful  Soldier  in  the  Country  Service  under  twelve  feveral  Captains,  And  par- 
ticularly under  Cpt.  Robin/on  as  they  were  guarding  the  maft  Cutters  at  the  Eaftward 

in 


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in  felling  of  Marts  for  his  Majeftys  Service,  a  Chip  from  one  of  the  Trees  flew 
into  one  of  his  Eyes  which  foon  occafion'd  the  Lofs  thereof,  By  Reafon  of  which 
Accident  he  foon  loft  the  other,  fo  that  fince  the  twenty  fourth  of  March  17 14  he 
has  been  entirely  blind,  &  thereby  render'd  incapable  of  providing  any  fubfiftence 
for  himfelf  &  in  a  very  miferable  &  deftitute  Condition;  Humbly  Praying,  That 
the  Gen"  Court  will  pleafe  to  take  his  cafe  into  their  Confideration  &  grant  fome 
annual  Allowance  to  preferve  him  from  perifliing. 

In  Council ;    Read  &  Recommended. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefcnt'f  Refolved,  that  the  fum  of  fix  Pounds  be  allowed 
&  paid  out  of  the  publick  Treafury  to  Roger  Billing  the  Petitioner  to  be  laid  out 
by  him  in  the  beft  manner  he  can  for  the  necefl*ary  Relief  &  Supply  of  the  blind 
Indian  in  whofe  Behalf  the  Petition  is  made.  In  Council;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  John  Tappin  of  Salifbury,  Importing  that  he  has 
been  formerly  a  Soldier  under  the  Command  of  Captain  Lothrop  in  the  Country 
Service  at  Deerfield  he  had  the  Misfortune  in  an  Engagement  with  the  Indian  Enemy 
to  receive  a  wound  in  his  right  Shoulder,  Whereby  he  was  &  ftill  is  rendered  unable 
to  work,  That  both  he  &  his  Wife  are  aged  &  infirm,  &  under  great  Difficulties 
to  fupport  himfelf  &  Family,  That  by  living  near  the  Province  Line  he  is  greatly 
opprefs'd  by  being  not  only  rated  in  Hampton,  but  in  Salifbury  alfo.  That  he  has 
often  made  Application  for  an  Abatement  in  Confideration  of  his  Wound  in  the 
Service,  but  that  the  Afleflbrs  have  no  Regard  to  his  Requeft.  Humbly  Praying 
that  the  General  Court  will  be  pleafed  to  take  his  Cafe  &  Service  into  Confideration ; 
&  free  him  for  the  future  from  all  publick  Taxes  &  Rates  while  he  continues  in 
this  Province. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Recommended. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'V  Ordered,  that  the  Petitioner  be  recommended  to 
the  Town  o(  Salifbury  for  Relief 

In  Council ;    Read  &  Concur'd 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd  unto  Monday  at  three  o  Clock  in  the  Afternoon. 


Monday  Dec   12.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon"!'  fVilliam  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov' 


Eliflia  Hutchinfon 
Samuel  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinfon 
Penn  Townfend 
Nath'.  Byfield 


►  Efq' 


Andrew  Belcher 
Edit/'  Bromfield 
John  Cujhing 
John  Otis 
John  Clark 


Efq' 


Addin :  Davenport 
Tho'  Hutchinfon 
Thomas  Fitch 
Edmund  Sluincey 
Adam  Wintrop 
John  Appleton  . 


Efq' 


A  N  Engrofs'd  Bill  entitled  An  AS  to  prevent  the  Oppreffion  of  Debtors :  Pafs'd  in 
■*  ^  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"*  to  be  Ena6ted.  In  Council ;  Read  &  Concur'd  to 
be  Enacted. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 
An  Engrofs'd  Bill  in  Addition  to  the  Adl  entituled  An  Act  againfl  Counterfieting 
the  Bills  of  Credit  &c,  Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent'!*  to  be  Enacted.     In  Council ;   Read 
&  Concur'd  to  be  Enadted. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 
V  An 


[8o] 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled  An  A5i  in  further  Addition  to  the  AS  for  Encouraging 
the  Killing  of  Wolves  ^c.  Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent'f  to  be  Enafted.  In  Council; 
Read  &  Concur'd  to  be  Ena6led, 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 
An  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled  An  A£f  for  Reviving  &  further  Continuing  of  an  ASl 
entituled  An  A£f  to  enable  Creditors  to  receive  their  juji  Debts  out  of  the  EffeSls  of  their 
abfent  £5?  abfconding  Debtors  &c.     Pafs'd   by   the   Reprefent""  to   be   Enafled.     In 
Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd  to  be  Enadled. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd  unto  to  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 

Tuefday  Dec'  13.  17 15 

Prefent  in  Council. 

The  Hon"."  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov' 


Elijha  Hutchinfon- 
Samuel  Sewall 
Nath'  Byfield 
And"".  Belcher 
Edw^  Bromfield 
Nath'  Payne 


Efq' 


Jofeph  Lynde         ~\  Penn  I'ownfend 

Eli""  Hutchin/on  John  Appleton 

John  Cu/hing  (.  pr  r      'Thomas  Hutchin/on 


John  Clark 
Addin:  Davenport 
Benj'  Lynde 


Thomas  Fitch 
Edmund  ^incy 
Adam  Wintrop. 


Efq' 


A  N  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled  An  AEl  in  Addition  to  an  A£l  for  Freeing  a  Powder 
•^^  Houfe  in  Boston.  Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent™  to  be  Enabled.  In  Council ; 
Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 

A  Bill  entituled  An  A£l  to  prevent  Damage  to  the  Houjing  &*  other  Eftate  within 
the  feveral  Towns  of  this  Province :  Pafs'd  by  the  ReprefentT  In  Council ;  Read 
three  feveral  times  &  Concur'd  to  be  Engrofs'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

In  Council,  Ordered,  that  the  Confideration  of  the  Vote  of  the  Reprefent"'  for 
the  Choice  of  an  Attorney  General  be  referr'd  to  next  May  Seflions. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Samuel  Sewall,  John  Leverett  &  Thomas  Fitch  Efq? 
&  Daniel  Oliver  Merch!  a  Committee  appointed  by  the  Truflees  of  the  Legacy  of  the 
Hon*!'  Edward  Hopkins  Efq!  Dec'd,  Importing,  that  whereas  they  were  appointed  to 
purchafe  a  Tradl  of  Land  call'd  Moguncoy  &  having  by  the  Allowance  &  Approba- 
tion of  the  General  Court  made  &  perfefted  the  Purchafe  of  the  faid  Land  in  the 
Name  &  in  Behalf  of  the  Truftees  of  the  Legacy  aforefaid  according  to  the  Decree 
in  Chancery  to  the  good  Advantage  &  univerfal  satisfadlion  of  the  Indians  late  Pro- 
prietors of  the  faid  Land,  and  the  faid  Truftees  are  defirous  to  fettle  a  Plantation 
upon  the  Purchafe  they  have  made  &  to  eredt  a  Town  or  Village  by  the  Name  of 
Hopkinton,  to  the  perpetuating  the  Memory  of  the  pious  Benefa(5lor,  But  that  upon 
the  Survey  of  the  faid  Land,  they  find  the  fame  fcanty  &  too  ftreight.  And  that  they 
are  informed  &  aflured  there  lies  a  Quantity  of  Country  Land  adjoining  to  the  faid 
Purchafe  neither  fufficient  by  it  felf  to  make  a  Plantation  or  fo  much  as  a  Village,  nor 
as  yet  affign'd  to  any  Townftiip,  nor  needed  by  any  of  the  neighbouring  Towns  on 
which  it  borders,  nor  defired  by  any  of  them,  &  may  be  a  very  accomodable  Enlarge- 
ment unto  the  Purchafe  they  have  made  for  the  pious  Intentions  of  the  aforefaid 
Benefaftor,  Humbly  Praying  that  the  said  Tra6l  of  Land  lying  between  Sutton  & 
the  faid  Purchafe  not  appropriated  may  be  granted  to  the  faid  Truftees,  and  that  the 
whole  Tra6l  may  be  incorporated  with  the  faid  Purchafe  into  a  Townfhip  by  the 
Name  of  Hopkinton. 

In 


[8.] 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'?* ;  Ordered,  that  the  Prayer  of  the  Petition  be  fo  far 
granted,  that  the  Lands  petitioned  for  together  with  the  Plantation  &  Purchafe  of 
Moguncoy  be  eredled  into  a  Townfliip  to  bear  the  Name  of  Hopkinton  &  have  & 
exercife  the  Powers  &  Privileges  of  a  Town ;  And  that  the  Fee  &  Property  of  the 
Lands  petitioned  for  do  ftill  remain  in  the  Province :   In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd  unto  to  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Wednefday  Decem'  14.  1715 


Prefent  in  Council 
The  Hon"!'  fVilliam  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Cover". 


Elijha  Hutchinfon 

Sam'  Sewall 
Eli"  Hutchinfon 
Penn  Townfend 
Nath'  Byfield 
John  Afpleton 
Andrew  Belcher 


Edw'd  Bromfield 
John  Cufhing 
Nathi  Payne 
Efq'        Nath'.  Norden 
John  Otis 
Thomas  Noyes 


BenJ'  Lynde 
John  Clark 
Addin :  Davenport 
.  Efq'        Tho'  Hutchinfon 
'Thomas  Fitch 
Edmund  ^incey 
Adam  JVintrop. 


Efq' 


A  Meffage  from  the  Reprefent'"  by  Capt  Noyes  Samuel  Thaxter  Efq'  &  M'  Lothrop, 
"*^  That  the  Board  would  reconfider  their  Vote  referring  to  the  Choice  of  an 
Attorney  General,  And  give  a  direft  Anfwer,  and  if  the  Board  do  not  fee  meet  to 
concur  with  them,  They  defire  a  Conference  with  them  upon  that  matter  this 
Afternoon. 

A  Bill  entituled  An  A51  for  maintaining  &?  propagating  Religion.  Pafs'd  by  the 
Reprefent'f     In  Council;   Read  three  feveral  times  &  Concur'd  to  be  Engrofs'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled  An  AEl  to  prevent  Damage  to  the  Houfing  6f  other 
Eflate  within  the  feveral  Towns  in  this  Province.  Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent'"  to  be 
enacted.         In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

It  being  put  to  the  Vote  Whether  the  Council  will  reconfider  their  Vote  referring 
to  the  Choice  of  an  Attorney  General.     Pafs'd  in  the  Affirmative. 

In  Council  Voted  a  Non-Concurrence  to  the  Vote  of  the  Reprefent'"  for  the 
Choice  of  an  Attorney  General,  and  agreed  to  a  Conference  on  that  Affair  this 
Afternoon. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  James  Taylour  late  Treafurer  of  the  Province  of 
the  Majfachufetts-Bay,  Importing,  That  for  one  &  Twenty  years  paft  he  had  the 
honour  to  ferve  this  Province  as  Treafurer  &  zealoufly  fought  the  Good  of  it,  as 
well  as  faithfully  difcharg'd  the  Truft  committed,  and  that  during  that  time  he  did 
with  all  readinefs  upon  every  exigent  or  neceffitous  Occafion  advance  his  own  Money 
for  the  publick  Service  without  any  Allowance  for  it.  That  it  fo  unfortunately  hap- 
pened in  the  laft  year  of  his  Service,  That  a  Robbery  was  committed  upon  the 
Treafury,  and  the  Sum  of  Eighty  eight  Pounds  thirteen  fliillings  &  four  pence  was 
ftolen  thence  &  carryed  away,  That  the  Perfon  or  Perfons  that  ftole  the  fame  are  not 
yet  difcovered,  tho'  all  proper  means  have  been  ufed,  that  he  has  accounted  for  the 
laid  Sum  of  Eighty  Eight  Pounds  thirteen  fhillings  &  four  pence  with  the  prefent 
Treafurer  &  paid  the  fame :  Humbly  Praying  that  the  General  Court  will  pleafe  to 
take  the  Premiffes  into  Confideration  &  order  the  s''  Sum  of  Eighty  Eight  Pounds 
thirteen  fliillings  &  four  pence  to  be  repaid  him  out  of  the  publick  Treafury,  that  fo 
he  may  not  fuftain  the  Lofs  of  it. 

In 


[82] 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"';  In  Confideration  of  the  good  &  faithful!  Service 
of  M'  James  Taylour  for  many  years  as  Treafurer  of  this  Province,  and  that  this 
Houfe  is  well  fatisfied  of  his  advancing  his  own  Money  in  the  publick  Affairs,  &  that 
he  has  fuftain'd  confiderable  Lofs  in  the  executing  that  Office ; 

Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  ninety  Pounds  be  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  publick 
Treafury  to  the  faid  M^  James  Taylour.         In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

It  being  put  to  Vote  in  Council,  Whether  the  Nomination  &  Appointment  of  an 
Attorney  General  belongs  to  the  Governour  &  Council  ?  It  pafs'd  in  the  negative. 
The  Council  expreffing  themfelves  that  it  belongs  to  the  General  Court. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Reprefent'f  by  Mefs"  Epes,  Cooke  &  Chipman,  That  the 
Houfe  are  willing  to  defer  the  Choice  of  an  Attorney  General  till  fryday  morning 
next.  And  that  there  is  daily  expeftation  of  a  Gentleman  from  England  Commif- 
fioned  for  that  Poft,  And  that  therefore  they  think  proper  to  fill  it  up.  That  they 
may  be  able  to  inform  him  fo,  when  he  comes ;  That  the  Reprefent'!'  of  Wejl 
Hampjhire  are  now  here,  &  the  Reprefent"?'  of  York  daily  expedted.  And  that  the 
Houfe  defires  the  Concurrence  of  the  Board  in  the  Choice  of  an  Attorney  General 
that  Time. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'",  Ordered,  that  Oliver  Noyes,  Sam'  Thaxter,  Elijha 
Cook  &  Edward  Hutchinfon  Efq?  &  Cpt.  Francis  Fulham  with  fuch  as  the  Hon^'' 
Board  fhall  nominate  be  a  Committee  to  confider  that  Paragraph  of  his  Honour  the 
Lieu!  Governours  Speech,  which  refers  to  the  fupport  &  increafe  of  Trade,  and  make 
report  what  they  think  proper  to  be  done  by  this  Court  for  that  End:  In  Council; 
Read  &  Concur'd  and  Eliakim  Hutchin/on,  Nathaniel  Byfield,  Thomas  Hutchinfon  & 
Thomas  Fitch  Efq"  join'd  to  the  Committee. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  John  UJher  Efq'  of  Charlefiown,  Importing,  That 
he  being  Treafurer  of  the  Territory  &  Dominion  of  New  England  during  the 
Government  of  Sir  Edmund  Andrews,  &  untill  the  Revolution,  That  he  did  advance 
&  pay  for  public  Ufes  feveral  confiderable  Sums  of  Money  more  than  came  to  his 
Hands  belonging  to  the  Treafury,  w*!  Accompts  His  Majefty  was  pleaf'd  to  refer 
the  Examination  of  to  the  Governour  &  Council  of  this  Province  with  Diredions 
that  Payment  fhould  be  made  to  him  of  the  ballance  of  his  Accompts  or  Render  a 
Reafon  to  the  Contrary,  That  purfuant  to  His  Majefty's  Orders,  There  was  a  Com- 
mittee appointed  by  His  Excellency  Jofeph  Dudley  Efq'  late  Governour  to  infpedl  & 
examine  his  faid  Accompts,  w"!  Committee  reported  that  the  Ballance  demanded  was 
One  thoufand  thirty  eight  Pounds  &  one  penny,  w"!  Report  the  Governour  &  Coun- 
cil Read  &  accepted,  w"!  is  ftill  unpaid.  That  he  could  never  obtain  any  Order  or 
Warrant  for  the  Payment  of  the  fame,  Nor  any  particular  Reafons  rendered  according 
to  the  Kings  Order,  That  he  has  been  kept  out  of  his  Money  thefe  twenty  fix  years, 
for  which  he  has  been  obliged  to  pay  yearly  Intereft,  w"!  amounts  to  fixteen  hundred 
Pounds,  That  laft  year  he  made  Application  to  the  General  Court  Prefling  for  an 
Anfwer,  but  obtain'd  none;  Humbly  Praying  that  the  General  Court  will  pleafe  to 
take  his  Cafe  into  Confideration  &  Order  him  the  Ballance  of  his  Accompt  or 
Render  Reafons  to  the  Contrary. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'",  Ordered,  that  Elijha  Cook,  William  Denifon,  Samuel 
Thaxter,  Edward  Hutchinfon  &  Charles  Chambers  Efq?  with  fuch  as  the  Hon""  Board 
Ihall  nominate  be  a  Committee  to  whom  this  Petition  is  refer'd.  That  they  confider 
the  Subjeft  Matter  &  Allegations  thereof  &  the  former  Proceedings  of  this  Court 
relating  thereto,  &  make  Report  what  they  think  proper  to  be  done  in  Anfwer 
thereto. 

In  Council ;  Read  &  Concur'd,  and  Andrew  Belcher ^Addinton  Davenport  &  Adam 
Wintrop  Efq'.' joined  to  the  Committee. 

A  Meflage  from  the  Reprefent"'  that  the  Houfe  defire  a  Conference  about  the 
Time  for  Chufing  an  Attorney  General. 

In 


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In  Council,  Concur'd,  and  Samuel  Sewall,  Andrew  Belcher,  Nathaniel  Byfield  & 
Benjamin  Lynde  Efq7  are  appointed  to  manage  the  Conference. 

Adjourn'd  unto  To  Morrow  at  Ten  a  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Thurfday  Dec'  15.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon".'  fVilliam  Jailer  Efq'  Lieu  Govern^ 


Eli/ha  Hutchinfon 
Samuel  Sewall 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Eli"  Hutchinfon 
Penn  Townfend 
John  Appleton 
Nath'.  Byfield 


►  Efq' 


And"  Belcher 
John  Cufhing 
Nath.  Payne 
Nath'  Norden 
Thomas  Noyes 
BenJ'  Lynde 
John  Otis 


John  Clark 
Addin:  Davenport 
Tho'  Hutchinfon 
Efq'  Thomas  Fitch 

Edward  Bromfield 
Edmund  ^incey 
Adam  fVintrop. 


Efq' 


TN  Council,  Voted,  that  the  Choice  of  an  Attorney  General  be  deferred  to  the  next 
-■■     May  Seflions. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent""  Non-Concur'd. 

Upon  Reading  a  Petition  of  Humphry  Bradjlreet  of  Newbury  in  the  County  of 
EJfex,  Phyfician,  Importing,  that  Ebenezer  Davis  was  a  Soldier  in  her  late  Majefly's 
Service  at  Haver hil  under  the  Command  of  Coll.  Richard  Saltonjial  in  the  year  1709. 
And  was  taken  ill  in  the  Service,  &  put  under  his  Care,  And  that  he  expended  Sun- 
dries amounting  to  the  Sum  of  One  Pound  &  feven  fliillings.  That  one  Henry  Flood 
under  the  Command  of  the  faid  Colo.  Saltonjlall,  who  was  likewife  put  under  his 
Care,  &  he  expended  upon  him  one  Pound  fifteen  (hillings,  as  appears  by  the  feveral 
Accompts  fign'd  by  the  faid  Col?  Saltonjlall,  That  Nicholas  Davi/on  of  Newbury  who 
was  wounded  upon  the  Expedition  to  Port  Royal  in  the  year  1709,  and  was  by  the 
late  Governour  Dudley  put  under  his  Care,  Which  was  done  both  with  great  Diffi- 
culty &  Expence;  and  that  there  remains  due  to  him  Ten  Pounds  &  five  (hillings. 
Humbly  Praying  that  the  General  Court  will  order  payment  of  the  fame. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"',  Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  Three  Pounds  &  two 
(hillings  be  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  publick  Treafury  to  Humphry  Bradjlreet  in 
full  of  the  Petition ;  Cpt.  Nicholas  Davifon  not  being  in  the  Service  of  this  Province 
when  he  receiv'd  his  Wound.     In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

In  Council ;  Voted  a  Non-Concurrence  Nemine  Contradicente  to  an  Ad  pafs'd 
by  the  Reprefent'f  entituled  An  Adi  for  the  frequent  Calling  of  Great  6?  General 
Courts  or  Affemblys,  The  Board  being  of  Opinion  that  the  Purport  of  the  Bill  is 
expreflly  contain'd  in  the  Charter  &  fo  conftrued  by  the  Laws  of  this  Province  & 
uninterrupted  Pradice  all  along. 

In  Council ;  Voted,  that  the  Council  adhere  to  their  Vote  above  about  the  Choice 
of  an  Attorney  General. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Upon  a  Motion  being  made  in  the  Houfe  &  a 
Letter  receiv'd  from  the  Hon*"''  the  Lieutenant  Governour  &  Council  of  the  Province 
oi New-Hampjhire,  That  the  Partition  Line  may  be  run  between  this  Province  &  that 
to  afcertain  the  Inhabitants  bordering  thereon  where  to  pay  their  Taxes,  &  to  pre- 
vent further  Differences,  Ordered,  that  Col°  Samuel  Appleton,  Col?  Thomas  Noyes  & 
Cpl  John  Gardner  be  a  Committee  on  Behalf  of  this  Province  fully  impowered  to 
meet  &  join  with  fuch  Perfons  as  (hall  be  appointed  and  fully  impowered  by  the 
General  Court  of  the  faid  Province  of  New-Hamp/hire  finally  to  fettle  &  determine 
the  Courfe  &  Running  of  the  Line,  Purfuant  to  the  Directions  of  the  Royal  Charter 

W  of 


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of  this  Province,  And  make  Report  to  this  Court.  The  Property  of  the  Lands  that 
have  been  improved  or  laid  out  to  any  Perfons  near  the  faid  Line  to  continue  & 
remain  to  them  as  now  it  is,  on  which  fide  foever  of  the  Line  they  (hall  happen  to 
fall.  And  his  Honour  the  Lieu!  Governour"  is  requefled  to  furnifh  them  with 
Powers  neceflary  to  proceed  in  the  Affair,  purfuant  to  this  Vote. 

In  Council;  Read  &  Concur'd,  and  John  Higginfon  Efq'  added  to  the  Committee 
in  the  Affair.     Any  three  of  which  to  be  a  Quorum. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefentatives :  Refolved,  That  the  Treafurer  be  diredled  to 
purchafe  good  Bills  of  Exchange  for  Two  hundred  Pounds  Sterling  to  be  paid  to 
Mr.  Jeremiah  Dummer  of  London,  Agent  for  this  Province,  further  to  enable  him 
to  Negotiate  the  Affairs  thereof  In  Council;  Read  and  Concur'd.  By  the  honour- 
able the  Lieutenant  Governour,  I  do  not  confent  to  the  Vote  above. 

W"  Tailer. 

In  Council ;  In  Anfwer  to  the  Petition  of  John  Legg  &  Edward  Brattle  Efq?  & 
feveral  others  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Marblehead  (enter'd  at  the  feventh  Page  of 
this  Book  at  large),  Ordered,  that  fo  long  as  the  Auditory  of  the  New  Meeting  Houfe, 
w?  the  Reverend  Mf  Edward  Holyoke  now  preaches  in,  fhall  maintain  a  learned  & 
orthodox  Minifler  there,  they  (hall  be  difcharged  from  Paying  towards  the  Mainte- 
nance of  any  other  Minifler,  excepting  their  Proportion  towards  the  Maintenance 
of  the  Rev?  Mf   Samuel  Cheever  during  his  natural  Life. 

In  the  Houfe  of  ReprefentT     Read  &  Concur'd. 

By  the  Hon*"!'  Lieu!  Governour 

Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd^unto  To^Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Friday  Dec!  i6.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon"!"  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov^ 


Elijha  Hutchin/on 
Sam'.  Sewall 
Jojeph  Lynde 
Eli".  Hutchinfon 
Penn  Town/end 
John  Appleton 
Nath.  Byfield 


Andrew  Belcher 
Edw^  Bromfield 
John  Cujhing 
>■  Efq'        NatV.  Payne 
John  Otis 
Thomas  Noyes 


Benj'  Lynde 
John  Clark 
Addin :  Davenport 
Efq'         Tho'  Hutchinfon 
Tho'  Fitch 
Edmund  ^incey 
Adam  fVintrop. 


►  Efq' 


A  Meffage  from  the  Reprefenf"  by  Samuel  Thaxter  &  Jofeph  Parjons  Efq?  That 
•^^  the  Houfe  defire  that  Matters  of  the  greatefl  Confequence  may  be  brought 
forward.  That  if  it  be  pofEble  they  may  rife  this  Week. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Richard  Coomes  &  Hephjibah  his  Wife,  Daughter 
&  only  Child  of  Jofeph  Newell  late  of  Roxbury  Mariner  Dec'd,  Importing  that  the 
faid  Jojeph  Newell  in  the  year  1691,  mortgaged  his  Eflate  in  Roxbury  to  Florence  Mac- 
carty  late  of  Bojlon  Butcher  Dec'd  for  the  Sum  of  Twelve  Pounds,  Conditioned  to 
pay  the  Sum  of  Sixteen  Pounds  &  fixteen  fhillings  within  the  Space  of  four  Years, 
as  appears  of  Record.  Which  is  after  the  Rate  of  Ten  Pounds  '^  Cent  ^  Annum, 
When  the  Land  at  the  leafl  Value  is  worth  Three  Hundred  Pounds,  And  that  he 
foon  after  it  went  to  Sea  &  died.  And  that  not  long  after  the  faid  Jofeph  NeweWs 
Deceafe,  the  Petitioner  Hephjibah  was  born,  &  the  Mortgagee  by  Contrivance  prevail'd 
with  &  over  perfuaded  the  Widow  the  Petitioner  Hephjibah' s  Mother  to  fell  &  con- 
vey the  Land  by  Deed  to  him,  &  took  PofTefTion  of  it  accordingly  before  the  four 
Years  limited  in  ^^thej  Deed  of  Mortgage  was  expired,  &  put  his  Deed  on  Record,  & 

held 


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held  his  PolTeffion  until!  the  Petitioner  Hephjiifa/i  came  of  Age,  When  fhe  underftood 
the  illegal  Proceedings  in  Conveying  her  Inheritance  from  her,  That  (he  had  a  Tryal 
at  the  Inferior  Court  held  at  Boflon  in  April  1713.  Where  the  faid  Florence  Meu- 
cartys  Heirs  produced  their  Deed  of  Sale  &  were  caft.  After  which  Tryal  the  Mort- 
gagee proved  the  faid  Mortgage,  &  enter'd  it  upon  Record,  when  it  had  been  hid  for 
more  than  twenty  Years  before.  And  by  Virtue  thereof  obtain'd  a  Verdi<5t  upon  his 
Appeal  to  the  Superior  Court,  Whereupon  the  Petitioner  review'd  having  firft 
tender'd  to  the  Heirs  of  the  faid  Florence  Maccarty  more  than  fufficient  to  pay  both 
the  Principal  &  Intereft  Money  in  Current  Silver  Money,  ready  in  the  Court  to 
have  taken  up  the  Mortgage,  But  it  was  faid  it  was  too  late;  And  the  Court  would 
give  no  Relief  in  the  Premifes,  the  Mortgager  having  made  Default  &  the  Mort- 
gagee being  in  atfluai  Pofleffion  thereof,  &  had  PoffelTion  beyond  the  Time  limited 
by  Law,  That  Judgment  was  given  againft  the  Petitioners,  Which  is  to  their  utter 
Ruine,  And  this  not  thr?  any  Default,  He  being  beyond  Sea,  imprefs'd  &  detained 
on  board  one  of  His  Majefty's  Ships  of  War  in  Barbadoes,  In  which  Service  he  died 
before  the  time  of  Redemption  was  expired,  nor  can  it  appear  to  be  a  Default  in  the 
Petitioner  Heph/ibah,  fhe  being  an  Infant,  That  notwithftanding  the  Mortgagee  has 
been  at  no  more  charge  than  the  Twelve  Pounds,  &  a  Yearly  payment  of  five  Pounds 
to  the  Mother  of  the  faid  Mortgager  which  the  Land  flood  charged,  &  fome  fmall 
charge  of  Fencing  &c.  Humbly  Praying  the  General  Court  to  take  the  Premiffes 
into  Confideration,  &  allow  them  their  juft  Right  of  Redemption. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"';  Voted,  that  the  Petitioners  ought  to  have  the 
Equity  of  Redemption,  Inafmuch  as  the  Mortgage  made  to  Florence  Maccarty  by 
Jofeph  Newell  father  of  the  Petitioners  was  not  recorded  untill  April  the  feventh 
17 14,  By  Reafon  whereof  they  were  defeated  of  the  Benefit  of  an  Aft  entituled  /in 
A£l  for  hearing  &"  determining  Cafes  in  Equity  made  &  pafs'd  the  tenth  of  William  the 
third  &c.  And  that  they  be  impower'd  to  file  a  Bill  for  their  Right  or  Equity  of 
Redemption  in  the  next  Court  or  Courts  of  Law  proper  to  hear  the  fame. 

In  Council;    Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Voted,  that  Mf  Jeremiah  Bummer  be  ftill  continued 
the  Agent  of  this  Province.  In  Council ;  Read  &  Concur'd.  By  the  Hon'l' 
Lieu!  Governour,  I  do  not  confent  to  the  Vote  above. 

Adjourn'd  unto  To  Morrow  at  Ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Saturday  Dec'  17.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 
The  Hon"!*  William  Tailer  Lieu.  Gov: 


Eli/ha  Hutchinfon  -> 
Sam\  Sewall 
Eli".  Hutchinfon 
John  Afpleton 
Penn  'Town/end 
Jofeph  Lynde 
Nath'  Byfield 


Andrew  Belcher 
Edward  Bromfield 
Nath.  Payne 
Efq'      John  Otis 

Nath'  Norden 
Thomas  Noyes 


Benj'  Lynde 
Addin :  Davenport 
John  Clark 
Efq'      Tho'.  Hutchinfon 
Thomas  Fitch 
Edmund  ^incey 
Adam  Wintrop. 


hEfq' 


''  I  "'He  Hon"''  the  Lieu  Governour  intimated  a  General  Council,  for  the  Nomina- 
•*•     tion  &  Appointment  of  Civil  Officers,  to  fit  in  Bojlon  upon  Saturday  the  twenty 
fourth  of  this  Inftant. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"*,  Infifted  on  their  former  Vote  in  Reference  to  the 
Selecfb  Men  &  Afleffors  &  other  Town  Officers  of  the  Town  of  Watertown. 
In  Council ;   Reconfider'd  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

The 


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The  following  Propofals  humbly  offered  by  the  Subfcribers  Truftees  for  the  Fifty 
Thoufand  Pounds,  viz'.  Firft,  That  for  the  receiving  in  the  Bill  of  Credit  now  on 
Loan  to  feveral  Perfons  by  Virtue  of  an  Adl  of  the  faid  Province  made  in  the  firft 
Year  of  his  prefent  Majefty's  Reign  the  Perfons  hereafter  named  to  receive  in  the 
faid  Bills  be  directed  &  impowered  upon  the  Receit  of  the  Annual  Intereft  or  any 
part  of  the  Principal,  as  the  fame  becomes  due  by  Vertue  of  the  faid  A6t,  and  the 
Mortgages  given  thereon  to  endorfe  on  the  Original  Deed  of  Mortgage  the  Receipt 
thereof,  and  when  the  whole  both  Principal  &  Intereft  is  paid,  Then  to  give  a 
Receipt  for  the  fame  on  the  faid  Deed,  to  be  figned  by  three  at  leaft  of  the 
Truftees  named  in  the  faid  Adl  or  their  Succeflbrs,  And  the  Deed  fhail  be  delivered 
to  the  Perfon  who  pays  the  faid  Bills,  Wl  Receipt  being  entered  in  the  Margin  of 
the  Book  of  Regiftry  where  the  faid  Deed  is  recorded  ftiall  fully  difcharge  the 
Premifes  therein  mentioned  from  any  other  Claim  &  Demand  whatfoever,  &  render 
the  faid  Deed  null  &  void.  Any  Law  Cuftom  or  Ufage  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
ftanding :  Secondly,  That  when  at  any  time  the  faid  Truftees  ftiall  have  receiv'd  the 
Sum  of  One  Thoufand  Pounds  of  the  faid  Bills,  either  Principal  or  Intereft,  The 
Treafurer  of  the  Province  for  the  time  being  be  diredted  &  impowered  to  take  in  the 
fame  from  them,  &  to  pafs  his  Receipt,  W!"  ftiall  be  a  full  difcharge  to  the  faid 
Truftees,  and  the  Bills  fo  receiv'd  by  him  to  be  burned  to  Aflies  at  the  firft  Oppor- 
tunity by  the  Committee  appointed  or  that  ftiall  be  appointed  by  this  Court  for  the 
Burning  unferviceable  Bills :  Thirdly,  That  the  faid  Truftees  do  meet  on  every 
Wednefday  Weekly  in  one  of  the  Rooms  of  the  Court  Houfe  in  Bojlon,  there  to 
give  their  Attendance  from  ten  to  twelve  o  Clock  in  the  Forenoon,  &  from  three  to 
five  in  the  Afternoon,  to  receive  in  the  Bills  from  Perfons  coming  to  pay  the  fame : 
Fourthly,  that  the  Truftees  for  their  Service  be  allowed  to  pay  themfelves  one  V  Cent 
on  all  the  Bills  by  them  hereafter  to  be  receiv'd  on  the  Accompt  of  the  Principal, 
and  to  be  accountable  to  this  Court  yearly,  if  demanded  for  their  Tranfadlions  in 

this  Affair. 

Sign'd  Andrew  Belcher  John  White 

Addin :  Davenport  Edw'i  Hutchin/on 

Thomas  Hutchin/on 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'!'  Voted,  That  the  foregoing  Propofals  be  Accepted,  & 
put  into  Pra6lice  as  they  now  ftand  amended.  In  Council;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"'  Voted,  That  the  Treafurer  of  this  Province,  the 
Treafurer  of  the  County  of  Suffolk,  &  the  Treafurer  of  the  Town  of  Bo/lon  be  a 
Committee  or  Truftees  to  purchafe  the  Houfe  &  Land  in  Bojlon  aforefaid  late  Power 
Sergeants  Efq'  Dec'd  for  the  Ufe  of  this  Province.  And  that  the  faid  Treafurers  & 
their  Succeflbrs  for  the  Time  being  have  Power  of  fiting  &  repairing  the  fame  when 
wanting.  Agreeable  to  fuch  Orders  as  they  ftiall  from  Time  to  Time  receive  from 
this  Court.  And  that  the  Province  Treafurer  do  emitt  &  pay  the  Sum  of  Two 
Thoufand  three  hundred  Pounds  for  purchafing  the  fame,  That  the  faid  House  & 
Land  be  a  fund  &  Security  for  drawing  in  the  faid  Bills  into  the  Treafury  again  for 
the  Space  of  twenty  one  Years,  That  at  the  Expiration  of  the  faid  Term,  It  ftiall  be 
fold  for  that  end  by  the  faid  Truftees  or  their  Succeffors,  unlefs  this  Court  ftiall  then 
fee  caufe  to  order  otherwife. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  IJaac  Woono  &  Jojhua  Shanton  Agents  in  Behalf 
of  Ketticutt  an  ancient  Indian  Town  or  Plantation  always  inhabited  by  Indians,  W!" 
lyeth  between  Taunton  Middleborough  &  Bridgwater,  &  have  had  the  Gofpel  preached 
to  them  by  an  Englifti  Minifter  many  Years  at  times,  but  conftantly  by  an  Indian 
Minifter,  Importing,  that  their  Englifti  Neighbours  of  Bridgwater  did  fome  years 
pafs'd  difturb  them  by  laying  Claim  to  their  Town  or  a  confiderable  Part  thereof 

under 


[87] 

under  pretence  of  fome  Grant  or  Purchafe,  where  upon  there  was  Applicatron  made 
to  the  Great  &  General  Court  in  the  Year  1703.  Upon  which  the  Court  were 
pleaf'd  to  order  a  Committee  to  meet  at  Barnftable  to  confider  of  the  Matter,  that 
the  faid  Woono  was  at  the  faid  Meeting,  but  for  want  of  Copys  of  fome  Records  & 
a  true  Underftanding  of  the  Englifh  Laws,  The  Committee  drew  up  a  Report  not 
altogether  in  their  favour,  upon  which  M!  Mitchell  of  Bridgwater  takes  advantage 
thereby  to  Claim  the  beft  part  of  our  faid  Indian  Town  &  gives  us  Trouble  at  Law, 
W?  they  fuppofe  to  be  contrary  to  the  Intent  of  the  General  Court,  when  they  ac- 
cepted the  Report  of  the  faid  Committee,  W?  could  be  no  otherwife  than  that  Bridg- 
water fliould  have  the  full  Extent  of  your  Grant,  Which  was  fix  miles  South  of 
Ketticutt,  which  is  their  Center  to  Ketticutt  River,  Which  plainly  appears  by  the  Bridg- 
water Grant,  By  which  the  Indian  Lands  were  referv'd  to  them,  W?  was  likewife 
done  in  Taunton  Grant  long  before.  That  the  faid  M;  Mitchel  does  profecute  them 
at  law  for  the  greateft  part  of  their  Town.  That  he  by  a  Petition  to  the  General 
Court  got  the  Bounds  oi  Plymouth  &  Brijlol  Counties  unfettled  for  no  other  Reafons 
but  to  profecute  us  at  Law,  That  the  General  Court  were  pleard  fo  far  to  favour 
him  as  to  appoint  a  Committee  to  go  &  examine  into  that  Affair;  Humbly  Praying 
that  they  may  be  continued  in  Brijlol  County  from  whence  they  have  their  Englifh 
Minifter,  &  that  the  General  Court  will  be  pleaf'd  to  take  their  Cafe  into  Confidera- 
tion  &  not  fuffer  them  &  their  Families  to  be  utterly  ruined  by  Depriving  them  of 
their  Lands  &c. 

In  Council;  Read  &  Referred  to  the  firft  Fryday  of  the  next  Seflions.  In  the 
Houfe  of  Reprefent'!'  Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Memorial  of  Edmund  ^incey  Efq'  for  &  in  Behalf  of  the 
Town  of  Brantrey,  Importing,  That  the  General  Court  at  their  Seflions  held  in  May 
17 14.  in  Anfwer  to  a  Petition  prefer'd  by  the  Memorialifl;  in  Behalf  of  faid  Town, 
Praying  that  a  Surveyour  might  be  appointed  to  protradl  &  lay  out  Six  thoufand 
Acres  of  Land  granted  by  the  General  Court  OStober  1666  to  the  Inhabitants  of 
Brantrey  limited  to  one  Place,  not  prejudicing  any  Plantation  or  particular 
Grant  &5 

Ordered,  that  the  Prayer  of  the  Petition  be  granted,  and  M'  Sam\  "Jones  Jun'  of 
Concord  (being  propof'd  by  the  Memorialift)  was  appointed  to  furvey  &  lay  out  the 
faid  Grant,  Provided  the  Land  be  taken  up  in  Middlejex  County,  If  in  the  County 
of  Suffolk  John  Chandler  Efq'  was  to  be  Surveyour,  as  beft  knowing  in  their  own 
Counties,  The  Plat  when  taken  to  be  prefented  to  the  Court  for  Confirmation,  as 
by  the  Records  will  more  plainly  appear,  That  for  as  much  as  the  faid  Samuel  Jones 
tho'  requefted,  negle<5ted  &  delayed  to  attend  the  Service  aforefaid,  and  it  being 
uncertain  Whether  the  faid  Land  lies  in  the  County  of  Hampjhirc  or  Middlefex,  So 
that  the  fame  not  being  to  be  found  in  the  County  of  Suffolk,  the  Memorialift  did 
not  apply  himfelf  to  John  Chandler  Efq',  but  prevail'd  with  M'.  fVilliam  Ward  of 
Marlborough  Surveyour,  to  furvey  &  lay  out  the  faid  Six  thoufand  Acres  of  Land, 
who  being  upon  Oath  with  the  Help  &  Afliftance  of  Daniel  Livermore  &  Gerjhom 
Ward  Chainmen  (who  were  alfo  fworn  before  M'  Juftice  How)  laid  out  the  fame  in 
the  Angle  between  the  Towns  of  Brookfield  &  Rutland,  As  plainly  appears  by  the 
Plat  thereof  now  prefented;  Humbly  Praying  that  for  the  Confiderations  aforefaid 
the  General  Court  will  pleafe  to  ratifie  &  Confirm  to  the  Town  of  Braintree  the  faid 
Six  thoufand  Acres  of  Land  according  as  it  is  protraded  &  laid  out  by  the  faid 
William  Ward  in  &  by  the  Plat  now  prefented  for  Confirmation,  It  no  way  preju- 
dicing any  Plantation  or  particular  Grant,  as  the  Memorialift  is  credibly  informed. 

Brantrey  Six  thoufand  Acres  of  Land  lying  in  the  Angle  between  Brookfield  & 
Rutland  \s  thus  defcrib'd  in  the  Piatt:  viz'. 

A  a  Pine  Tree  being  Brookfield  Corner.     B  a  heap  of  Stones 

G  a  Point,  Survey'd  by  William  Ward. 

X  In 


[  88  ] 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f"  Ordered,  that  the  Piat  on  the  other  fide  be  ac- 
cepted, &  the  Land  therein  defcrib'd  be  confirm'd  to  the  Town  of  Brantrey  in  Fulfil- 
ment of  a  Grant  of  Six  thoufand  Acres  made  to  them  the  Eleventh  of  OSlober,  1666. 
by  the  General  Court,  Provided  it  interfere  with  no  former  Grant,  And  that  this 
Court  annex  the  faid  Lands  to  fuch  Town  as  they  (hall  think  proper  hereafter. 

In  Council;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Adjourned  unto  Monday  at  three  o  Clock  in  the  Afternoon. 


Monday  Dec'  19.  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon"!'  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov! 


Sam^  Sewall       -\ 
Jo/eph  Lynde      | 
Eli'!  Hutchinfon  V  Efq' 
Penn  Town/end  \ 
Nath\  Byfield     J 


Andrew  Belcher 
Edw''.  Bromfield 
John  Clark 
Nath'.  Payne 


Thomas  Noyes 
Addin :  Davenport 
Efq'  Tho-  Hutchinfon 

"Thomas  Fitch 
Adam  Wintrop. 


Efq' 


A  Bill  entituled  An  All  for  Holding  &  Keeping  a  Superior  Court  of  Judicature  Court 
■^^  of  AJJize  &'  General  Goal  Delivery  within  &  for  the  County  of  Hampfhire.  Pafs'd 
by  the  Reprefent'f 

In  Council ;   Read  three  feveral  times  &  Concur'd  to  be  Engrofs'd. 

A  Bill  entituled  An  A51  in  Addition  to  the  ASl  for  the  Regulating  of  Town/hips, 
Choice  of  Town  Officers,  &  Setting  forth  their  Power,  made  ^  Pafs'd  in  the  fourth  Tear 
0/ William  &"  Mary:   Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent'f 

In  Council ;   Read  three  feveral  Times  &  Concur'd  to  be  Engrofs'd. 

A  Bill  entituled  An  AS  to  prevent  the  unnecejfary  Journeyings  of  the  Reprefent".' 
Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent'?' 

In  Council ;   Read  three  feveral  Times  &  Concur'd  to  be  Engrofs'd. 

A  Bill  entituled  An  A£l  for  the  Encouraging  of  the  Raijing  of  Hemp  within  this 
Province.         Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent'" 

In  Council ;   Read  three  feveral  Times  &  Concur'd  to  be  Engrofs'd. 

Upon  Reading  a  Petition  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Wefterly  Part  of  the  Blew 
Hills  within  the  Town  of  Dorchejler,  commonly  call'd  the  New  Grant,  Importing, 
That  they  live  very  remote  from  any  Place  of  Publick  Worfhip,  The  neareft  being 
about  fix  miles  diftant  from  Dorchejler  Dedham  &  Milton,  Were  upon  that  account  very 
uneafy  &  Petitioned  the  Town  oi  Dorchejler  that  they  might  be  fett  off  a  Precinft  by 
themfelves.  Whereupon  at  a  Meeting  of  the  Town  of  Dorchejler,  on  the  twelfth  Day 
of  May  1707.  they  did  by  a  Vote  manifefl:  their  Confent  thereto.  And  that  the 
Petitioners  fliould  be  impowered  to  agree  with  &  fettle  an  able  Minifter  among 
themfelves,  &  to  raife  a  Tax  to  defray  the  Charges  of  Building  their  Meeting- 
Houfe,  &  Maintenance  of  their  Minifter  &".  And  chofe  a  Committee,  who  with 
the  Petitioners  on  the  tenth  Day  of  June  following  agreed  upon  the  Place  where  the 
Meeting  Houfe  fliould  ftand  &  now  ftands,  &  what  fliould  be  the  Bounds  &  Limits 
of  their  Precincft,  as  by  the  Committees  return  may  appear,  And  moreover  the  Town 
oi  Dorchejler  gave  the  Petitioners  about  thirty  Pounds  towards  Building  their  Meet- 
ing Houfe,  That  upon  this  Encouragement  the  Petitioners  fett  about  building  their 
Meeting  Houfe,  And  in  May  1708.  petitioned  the  General  Court  for  Confirmation 
of  what  was  done,  &  to  impower  them  to  do  fuch  other  Afts  as  might  be  agreeable 
to  the  Laws  &f  Which  pafs'd  in  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"",  But  was  Non-Concur'd 
in  Council,  That  they  have  improv'd  \imployd?'\  the  Rev'd  M!  Jofeph  Morfe  as  their 

Minifter 


[89] 

Minifter  for  above  thefe  eight  years,  but  not  ordain'd,  nor  the  Petitioners  enabled  to 
levy  a  Tax  for  his  Support,  Which  lays  them  under  very  great  Inconveniences  for 
want  of  the  Gofpel,  &  as  to  the  Minifters  Support,  Which  falls  heavy  upon  fome 
while  others  refuie  to  pay  any  thing  at  all.  Humbly  Praying  that  the  General  Court 
will  pleafe  to  Confirm  the  faid  Town  Vote  &  the  Doings  of  the  Committee  there- 
upon, and  that  they  may  be  a  diftindl  Precind  &  Impower'd  to  choofe  fit  Perfons 
among  themfelves  to  aflefs  &  Levy  a  Tax  for  the  Support  of  their  Minifter  & 
Defraying  other  Charges,  &  to  do  fuch  other  A«5ts  as  may  be  agreeable  to  the 
Laws  &? 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefenff  Ordered,  that  the  Prayer  of  this  Petition  be  granted 
fo  far.  That  a  new  Precinft  be  conftituted  &  fett  off  with  all  the  neceffary  Powers  & 
Privileges  ufed  &  exercifed  by  Precinfts  for  the  Maintenance  of  the  Gofpel  Miniftry 
agreeable  to,  the  Limits  &  Conditions  exprefs'd  in  the  Report  of  the  Committee 
apointed  by  the  Town  of  Dorchejler  for  that  End,  &  which  is  figned  by  Samuel  Clap, 
Samu'  Topliffee  &  Samuel  Wales.         In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Adjourned  unto  To  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Tuefday  Dec'  20.  17 15. 

Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon"!'  William  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu  Gov' 


Wait  Wintrop 
Elijha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'.  Sewall 
Jqfeph  Lynde 
Elia"  Hutchinfon 
Penn  1'ownfend 


Efq' 


Nath'.  Byfield 
And""  Belcher 
Edw^  Bromfield 
NatH.  Payne 
I'homas  Noyes 


I  Efq' 


John  Clark 
Addin:  Davenport 
Tho'  Hutchinfon 
Tho'  Fitch 
Edm'f  ^incy 
Adam  Wintrop. 


Efq' 


TN  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"*  Refolved  tha.t  the  Sum  of  Two  Hundred  Pounds  be 
■*■  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  his  Honour  William  "Toiler  Efq' 
Lieutenant  Governour  &  Commander  in  Chief  of  this  his  Majefty's  Province  for 
his  Support  in  Managing  the  Affairs  of  the  Governm!  In  Council ;  Read  & 
Concur'd,  and,  Advifed  &  Confented  that  a  Warrant  be  made  out  to  the  Treafurer 
for  the  Payment  of  the  above  Two  hundred  Pounds. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer, 

The  Award  of  the  Committee  upon  the  liland  of  Chebaquidduck,  Concur'd  in  both 
Houfes.     Entr'd  in  the  Book  of  Laws  Page  249  at  large. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  Five  Hundred  Pounds 
be  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  publick  Treafury  to  the  Committee  appointed  by  this 
Court  to  build  a  Light  Houfe  on  Beacon  IJland  at  the  Entrance  of  the  Harbour  of 
Bojlon,  for  the  carrying  on  of  that  Work,  To  be  accounted  for  to  this  Court. 

In  Council;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  Thirty  Pounds  be 
allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  John  White  Clerk  of  this  Houfe  for 
his  Service  in  the  Year  Currant. 

In  Council;    Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  Twenty  Pounds  be 
allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  Publick  Treafury  to  John  Flagg  Door-keeper  to  his 
Honour  the  Lieu!  Governour  &  this  Court  for  his  Service  half  a  year  ending  the 
26  Day  oi  December  Inftant. 

In  Council;  Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer, 

In 


[90] 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefenff*  The  Gentlemen  appointed  by  this  Court  a  Com- 
mittee to  take  Care  for  the  Building  of  a  Light  Houfe  &'  not  having  Leifurc  to 
attend  that  Work, 

Ordered,  that  the  Overfight  of  that  Work  be  committed  to  M'  William  Payne  & 
M'  Zechariah  1'uthill  to  carry  on  &  finilh  the  fame  agreeable  to  the  Advice  &  Direc- 
tion they  {hall  from  time  to  time  receive  from  the  faid  Committee,  And  that  Sixty 
Pounds  be  allowed  to  them  for  the  whole  of  that  Service,  When  it  Ihall  be 
compleated. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled  An  ASi  for  the  Encouraging  the  Raijing  of  Hemp 
within  this  Province.     Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent'."  to  be  Enadted. 

In  Council ;   Concur'd  to  be  Enadted. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled.  An  ASl  for  Holding  i£  Keeping  a  Superior  Court  of 
Judicature,  Court  of  AJJvze  i£  Generall  Gaol  Delivery  within  &  for  the  County  of 
Hamplhire.         Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefenf"  to  be  Enaded. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd  to  be  Enadted. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled  An  A£l  to  prevent  the  unnecejfary  Journeyings  of  the 
Reprefent"'.'      Pafs'd  to  be  Enafted  by  the  Reprefent"' 

In  Council ;   Concur'd  to  be  Enaded. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled  An  Aa  in  Addition  to  the  A£l  Entituled  An  A£l  for 
Regulating  of  Town/hips,  Choice  of  'Town  Officers,  6f  Setting  forth  their  Power,  Made  £5? 
Pafs'd  in  the  fourth  0/ William  l^  Mary. 

Pafs'd  by  the  ReprefentT  to  be  Enafted. 

In  Council ;   Concur'd  to  be  Enaded. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled  An  ASl  for  the  maintaining  i£  propogating  of  Religion. 
Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefenf"  to  be  Enaded. 

In  Council ;  Concur'd  to  be  Enadled. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Richard  Car  of  Salifhury  in  the  County  of  Effex, 
Mariner,  Importing,  That  about  the  Year  1687,  The  then  Governour  &  Council 
were  pleaf 'd  to  grant  Liberty  to  Lieu  Col°  March  to  keep  a  new  Ferry  over  the 
lower  Part  of  Merrimack  River  between  Newbury  &  Salifhury,  During  their  Pleafure, 
Wl"  Ferry  has  been  fince  continued  &  of  late  fettled  by  the  Quarter  Seffions  of  the 
faid  County  upon  the  Towns  of  Newbury  &  Salifhury,  both  which  are  in  Prejudice  of 
a  Grant  formerly  made  by  the  General  Court  to  M'  George  Car  the  Petitioners 
Father,  and  have  been  &  now  are  very  injurious  to  his  Heirs,  and  humbly  Prays 
that  Juftice  may  be  done  him.  To  which  End  he  offers  the  following  Particulars ; 
viz'.  That  there  was  by  Order  of  the  General  Court,  a  Covenant  made  between  the 
Court  of  Salifhury  &  M'  John  Car  the  Petitioners  Father,  about  building  a  Float 
Bridge  over  Merrimack  River  Si'  And  Confirm'd  by  the  General  Court  Anno  1650 
&  1660,  &  therein  an  ancient  Grant  of  the  whole  Ferry  or  Ferrys  between  Newbury 
&  Salifhury  was  conditionally  made  to  the  faid  Car  &  his  Heirs ;  that  the  Covenant 
on  the  faid  Cars  Part  was  fulfilled  to  the  Satisfadion  of  all,  as  appears  not  only  on 
Record,  But  alfo  in  that  there  was  never  any  Obje<5lion  made  againft  him,  nor  can 
there  be  juftly  at  this  time.  That  in  Fulfilling  this  Covenant  the  faid  Car  was  at  more 
than  Three  Hundred  Pounds  expence  in  firft  Building  the  Bridge  &  other  Accommo- 
dations for  the  Ferry,  And  that  in  the  Settlement  of  the  faid  Car's  Eftate,  This  Grant 
&  Privilege  was  apportioned  &  appraif'd  to  his  Heirs  James  &  Richard  (the  Peti- 
tioner) at  near  Four  hundred  Pounds  ;  That  the  Granting  or  Settling  a  Ferry  between 

Newbury 


[9.] 

Newbury  &  Salijbury  or  any  others  was  a  Breach  of  Covenant  on  the  Countrey's  Part, 
&  contrary  to  the  Intention  &  Meaning  of  the  Covenanters  on  both  Sides,  &  a 
manifeft  lUufion  to  faid  Car  &  his  Heirs;  That  the  faid  Car  would  not  have  been 
at  fo  great  a  Charge,  had  he  thought  that  a  Ferry  but  a  little  below  him  would  have 
ever  been  Granted  to  any  other.  Which  would  fpoil  both  the  Cuftom  &  Profitt  of 
that  which  was  attended  with  fo  great  a  Charge,  as  it  hitherto  hath  been,  almoft  to 
the  undoing  of  us  to  whofe  Lot  this  Part  of  our  Fathers  Eftate  fell,  Who  for  being 
kept  out  of  our  Right  are  damnified  at  leaft  Fifty  &  Sixty  Pounds  a  Year,  That  it 
cannot  be  fuppofed  the  General  Court  made  any  Refervation  to  the  Contrary,  but  that 
the  true  Intent  &  Meaning  of  their  Grant  &  Covenant  was  the  faid  Car  &  his  Heirs 
Ihould  have  the  fole  Benefit  of  Ferry  or  Ferrys  between  the  two  Towns  aforefaid, 
w"^  is  evident,  in  that  the  other  Ferry  below  was  put  down  as  foon  as  the  Bridge  was 
finifhed.  And  that  when  another  Ferry  was  thought  needful  fome  miles  above  the 
Ferry,  The  General  Court  judged  it  juft  to  give  the  faid  Car  the  Offer  &  Grant  of  it 
Anno  1669.  And  at  the  fame  time  declared  it  was  needful  fo  to  do  to  make  good 
their  ancient  Covenant  with  him,  And  that  if  any  other  Ferrys  fhould  be  thought 
ufeful  for  the  Countrey  within  the  aforefaid  Limits,  the  s?  Car  fhould  have  the 
Refufal  of  keeping  them.  That  when  the  lower  Ferry  aforefaid  was  firfl  fett  up.  The 
Offer  of  it  was  never  made  to  M'  Cars  proper  Heirs  of  that  Right,  Neither  had 
they  both  the  Refufal  of  it.  That  what  ever  was  propofed  to  the  Petitioner  about  it 
was  not  rejefted.  That  he  only  objeded  againfl  fome  Propofals,  which  he  fuppofed 
he  had  juft  Reafon  for,  as  being  contrary  to  the  ancient  Grant  &  Covenant,  That 
the  firfl  Grant  or  Permit  to  keep  the  lower  Ferry  aforefaid  to  Coll.  March  was  only 
during  Pleafure,  That  it  can  be  no  Prejudice  or  Detriment  to  the  Countrey  nor  any 
Perfon  what  foever,  now  to  grant  &  fettle  it  on  them  to  whom  it  of  Right  belongs ; 
That  the  late  Settlement  by  the  SeflTions  of  a  Ferry  at  the  fame  Place  upon  the  two 
Towns  aforefaid  was  done  without  the  leaft  Offer  to  either  of  the  Heirs  or  the 
faid  Car  or  Giving  them  any  oppertunity  of  Setting  forth  their  Right  or  Speaking 
for  themfelves,  &  contrary  to  the  Grant  &  Covenant  according  to  which  the  Ferry 
was  not  to  be  kept  by  Newbury  &  Salijbury  till  the  aforefaid  Bridge  fell  down,  and 
then  no  longer  to  continue  fo,  but  till  it  fhould  be  rebuilt  by  the  faid  Car  or  his 
Heirs ;  That  it  is  of  necefTity  that  that  Ferry  fhould  be  kept  up,  where  &  for 
which  the  Bridge  was  built  for  the  publick  Benefit  of  the  Countrey,  Becaufe  it  is 
impofldble  to  keep  or  pafs  the  lower  Ferry  at  all  Times,  &  very  hazardous  for  a 
great  Part  of  the  Winter,  tho'  it  may  be  convenient  in  the  Summer,  when  it  draw 
away  all  the  Cuftom  &  Profit  of  the  old  ferry  ;  That  the  Petitioner  fuppofes  it  juft 
&  reafonable,  that  he  who  keeps  up  the  old  Ferry  of  neceffity  for  the  publick  Good 
fh?  have  the  Benefit  &  Profit  of  the  new  Ferry,  W?  is  only  for  the  Conveniency  of 
fome  Perfons  &  at  fome  times,  to  fupport  &  maintain  at  an  extraordinary  charge 
that  which  is  kept  of  neceffity.  That  he  humbly  oflfers  thefe  Confiderations  to  the 
General  Court,  Humbly  Praying  that  the  aforefaid  Ferry  over  the  lower  part  of 
Merrimack  River,  may  be  either  wholly  put  down,  or  fettled  according  to  the  afore- 
faid Grant  &  Covenant  with  the  faid  Car  &  his  Heirs,  or  that  the  Refufal  of  keeping 
the  fame,  at  the  fame  price  at  which  it  is  now  kept  may  be  given  to  the  Petitioner. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'";  Ordered.  That  the  Petitioner  ferve  the  Towns  of 
Newbury  &  Salijbury  with  a  Copy  of  this  Petition,  That  they  be  heard  there  upon 
before  this  Court,  upon  the  fecond  Wednesday  of  the  Seffion  of  this  Court  in  May 
next.  If  they  have  any  thing  to  objedt,  Why  the  Prayer  thereof  fhould  not  be 
granted. 

In  Council ;  Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

A  Bill  entituled  An  A£t  in  Addition  to  an  A£t  entituled  An  A£l  for  making  Lands 
i£  Tenements  liable  to  the  Payment  of  Debts,  Made  &  Pajs'd  in  the  eighth  Tear  of  the 
Reign  of  King  WMiiin  :   Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent'!*  to  be  Engrofs'd.  In  Council; 

Concur'd. 

Adjourn'd  unto  To  Morrow  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 

Y  Wednefday 


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Wednefday  Decern.  21.  1715 

Prefent  in  Council 
The  Hon"''  William  Jailer  Efq'  Lieu'  Govern' 


Eli/ha  Hutchinjon 
Samuel  Sewall 
Jo/eph  Lynde 
Eli'"Hutchinfon 
Penn  'Town/end. 


►  Efq' 


Andrew  Belcher 
Edw^  Bromfield 
Nathl  Payne 
Nath'.  Byfield 
Thomas  Noyes 
John  Clark 


Addin:  Davenport 
Tho'.  Hutchinfoji 
y^  ,        'Thomas  Fitch 
"         Edm''  ^incey 
Adam  Wintrop. 


-Efq' 


T  TPon  Reading  a  Petition  of  feveral  of  the  Inhabitants  oi  Hatfield,  Importing,  That 
^^  they  have  humbly  offered  a  Petition  to  the  General  Court  for  Relief  from  the 
Grievances  they  lye  under  from  the  Impofitions  of  their  Neighbours  of  Hadley  upon 
them,  which  Petition  is  ftill  depending.  That  they  are  inform'd  that  fome  of  the 
General  Court  are  of  Opinion,  That  tho'  there  may  be  reafon  to  releafe  the  faid 
Town  of  the  Burthen  complain'd  of,  yet  the  Altering  the  Bounds  of  Townfhips  may 
prove  matter  of  future  Inconvenience,  That  they  now  renew  their  Petition,  fetting 
forth  the  Hardfhips  they  ly  under  in  Paying  their  Proportion  of  Taxes  to  the  Town- 
fliip  of  Hadley,  not  only  for  the  Province  but  the  Miniflry  alfo,  &  all  Town  Charges, 
tho  they  partake  of  no  Town  Privileges,  That  they  are  of  the  fame  Opinion  with 
their  Neighbours,  that  all  their  Lands  on  the  Weft  fide  of  the  River  may  be  affigned 
to  pay  their  Proportion  of  all  Town  Charges  to  &  with  the  Townfhip  of  Hat- 
field forever,  Altho'  their  dues  there  upon  will  be  greater  than  at  prefent  to  Hadley, 
their  accommodations  being  double  in  Value,  If  the  Lands  petitioned  for  be  annex'd 
to  them,  Inafmuch  as  they  enjoy  the  Miniftry  &  all  Town  Privileges  in  Common 
they  think  it  reafonable  to  be  at  an  equal  Expence  with  them  in  fupporting  them. 
Praying  humbly  Relief. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Read  &  Ordered,  that  John  Pynchion  Efq'  M'  Luke 
Hitchcock  M'  John  AJhley  be  a  Committee  to  whom  this  Petition  is  refer' d,  to  con- 
fider  the  fubje6l  matter  &  Allegations,  and  make  Report  what  they  think  proper  to 
be  done  thereon  at  the  Seffion  of  this  Court  in  May  next. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

The  Report  of  a  Special  Seffions  held  at  Wenham  Sept  6.  17 15.  viz! 

Effex  fs  Anno  R'  Reg'  Georgii  fecondo. 

At  a  fpecial  Seffions  of  the  Peace  holden  at  Wenham  within  &  for  the  County  of 
EJfex  by  a  particular  Order  of  the  Governour  &  General  Court  for  the  Hearing  & 
Determining  the  Differences  arifing  in  the  Town  of  Wenham  fett  forth  in  a  Petition 
under  the  Hands  of  William  Fairfield,  Jqfeph  Herrick  &"  in  Behalf  of  themfelves  & 
others. 

Prefent,  John  Appleton  Efq',  John  Higginjon^  Efq',  Thomas  Noyes  Efq',  Samuel 
Appleton  Efq',  John  Burril  Efq'. 

The  Court  of  Special  Seffions  being  opened.  The  Petitioners  &  Defendants  call'd 
&  appeared  &  after  a  full  Hearing  of  all  fides,  &  the  Papers  Read  &  perufed,  After 
fome  Overtures  of  an  Accommodation  W!  prov'd  abortive ;  It  is  confidered  by  the 
Juftices  aforefaid  in  Special  Seffions  affembled  as  before  exprefs'd  in  manner  following ; 
wzf 

That  the  Petitioners  or  Complainants  had  no  fufficient  Ground  of  Complaint  in 
Manner  as  fett  forth  in  their  Petition  to  the  General  Court. 

In    Council;    Read    &    Accepted.  In  the   Houfe    of  Reprefent'f"     Read  & 

Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

A 


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A  Report  of  the  Committee  relating  to  Sudbury. 

In  Obedience  to  the  Order  of  the  Great  &  General  Court  or  Affembly,  We  the 
within  named  Committee  have  been  at  Sudbury,  &  have  view'd  the  feveral  Places 
fhewn  to  us  by  the  Inhabitants  on  the  Weft  Side  of  the  River  for  Setting  up  a  New 
Meeting  Houfe  &  are  of  Opinion  that  a  Place  called  Poplar  Swamp  Gutter  on  the 
Weft  Side  of  the  faid  Gutter  &  on  the  North  Side  of  Lancafter  Road  between  the 
f!  Gutter  &  Heart  Pond  is  the  moft  convenient  Place  for  Eredling  the  faid  Meeting 
Houfe.  We  have  alfo  heard  the  Inhabitants  on  both  Sides  the  River  referring  to  the 
way  of  Supporting  the  Miniftry;  The  Inhabitants  on  the  Eaft  Side  are  willing  to 
give  one  Half  of  the  Land  in  Sudbury  to  make  the  Weft  Precinft,  &  fo  each  maintain 
their  own  Minifter,  Which  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Weft  Side  of  the  River  do  refufe, 
&  inftead  thereof  propofe  to  build  a  Meeting  Houfe  at  their  own  Charge  &  fettle  a 
Minifter,  And  that  the  Miniftry  on  both  Sides  the  River  be  fupported  equally  by 
the  whole  Town :  The  faid  Committee  do  alfo  report  that  there  is  a  new  School 
Houfe  eredted  on  the  Weft  Side  juft  by  the  River,  Which  may  accommodate  at 
prefent  the  whole  Town,  all  which  is  humbly  fubmitted : 

(Signed)     Penn  Townsend,  in  the  name  of  the  Committee. 

Bojlon,  December  8.  17 15. 

In  Council ;  Read  &  Accepted  as  to  the  Place  for  Erefting  the  new  Meeting 
Houfe,  and  that  the  Inhabitants  do  in  common  maintain  &  pay  both  their  Minifters. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"'     Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Re/ohed,  That  the  Treafurer  be  and  hereby  is 
Diredled  &  Impowered  to  iflue  forth  &  Emit  the  Sum  of  Four  Thoufand  Pounds 
of  the  Bills  of  publick  Credit  on  this  Province  that  are  or  (hall  be  receiv'd  into  the 
Treafury  for  Payment  of  the  publick  Debts  of  the  Province  for  the  Defence  &  Sup- 
port of  the  Governm!  &  the  neceflary  Protection  &  Prefervation  of  the  Inhabitants 
of  this  Province,  And  for  the  Subfifting  of  Forts  or  Garrifons  &  Wages  arifing  for 
their  Service,  And  for  Payment  of  Grants  Salaries  &  Allowances  made  &  to  be  made 
by  this  Court,  According  to  fuch  Draughts  as  from  Time  to  Time  fliall  be  made 
upon  him  by  Warrant  or  Order  of  the  Governour  or  Commander  in  Chief  for  the 
time  being  by  &  with  the  Advice  &  Confent  of  the  Council.  And  the  faid  Bills 
fliall  pafs  out  of  the  Treafury  at  the  Value  therein  exprefs'd  equivalent  to  Money. 
And  ftiall  be  taken  &  accepted  in  all  public  Payments  at  the  Advance  &  after  the 
Rate  of  Five  Pounds  per  Cent  more. 

And  as  a  Fund  &  Security  for  the  fame,  there  be,  &  hereby  is  granted  unto  his 
more  Excellent  Majefty  to  the  Ends  &  Ufes  aforefaid,  a  Tax  of  Four  Thoufand 
Pounds  to  be  levyed  upon  Poles  &  Eftates  both  Real  &  Perfonal  in  this  Province, 
according  to  fuch  Rules  &  in  fuch  Proportions  on  the  feveral  Towns  &  Diftri(5ls 
within  the  fame,  As  ftiall  be  agreed  on  &  Ordered  by  the  Great  &  General  Court  or 
Aflembly  of  this  Province  at  their  Seffion  in  May  Anno  17 19:  &  paid  into  the 
Treafury  on  or  before  the  laft  Day  of  December  next  after. 

In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W°  Tailer. 
Upon  Reading  an  Accompt  prefented  by  Jojeph  Jenks,  amounting  to  Two  hun- 
dred twenty  three  Pounds  fourteen  ftiillings  &  eleven  pence  being  the  expence  of 
building  a  Bridge  over  Pawtucket  River. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'f  Refolved,  that  the  Sum  of  Fifty  one  Pounds  feven- 
teen  Shillings  &  five  pence  half  penny  be  further  allowed  &  paid  out  of  the  publick 
Treafury  to  Joftph  Jenks  the  Accomptant,  which  with  Sixty  Pounds  already  paid  by 
this  Province  is  one  half  of  this  Accompt,  &  is  in  full  of  what  this  Province  pays  to 
the  building  of  the  faid  Bridge. 
In  Council;    Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

An 


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An  Acc°  being  prefented  by  Andrew  Belcher  Efq'  Addin :  Davenport  Efq'  Thomas 
Hutchinfon  Efq'  Edward  Hutchinfon  Efq'  &  M'  John  White  the  Truftees  for  the 
Fifty  Thoufand  Pounds  Loan,  of  all  their  Proceedings  therein :  Upon  which  the 
following  Order  pafs'd  ;  viz'. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'!'  This  Accompt  being  laid  before  the  Houfe  &  con- 
fidered,  Ordered^  that  it  be  accepted,  &  the  Service  of  the  Truftees  be  approv'd  fo  far 
as  they  have  proceeded  in  the  Affair. 

In  Council;    Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

In  Council ;  In  Anfwer  to  the  Petition  of  John  Nel/on  Efq'  fett  forth  at  large  in 
Ordered,  that  the  Aftion  be  heard  at  the  next  Inferior  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  to  be  held  for  the  County  of  Suffolk,  as  to  the  merit  of  the  Caufe  upon  the 
former  Writt,  the  Petitioner  giving  Security  in  One  Thoufand  Pounds  with  a 
fufficient  Bondfman  to  abide  the  Order  of  the  Court  in  the  common  form,  And  ferv- 
ing  the  Plaintiffs  with  a  Copy  of  this  Order  feven  Days  before  the  faid  Courts  Sitting, 
And  that  Execution  upon  the  Judgment  by  Default  be  flay'd  untill  this  Tryal  be 
over  &  then  to  be  utterly  void:  In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent""     Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

Upon  Reading  a  Petition  of  Richard  Car  of  Salijbury,  Mariner,  Importing,  that 
at  his  Majefty's  Superiour  Court  of  Judicature  holden  at  Ipfwitch  for  the  County  of 
Ejffex  the  third  Tuefday  of  May  17 12,  he  had  an  Aftion  depending  there  by  Appeal 
from  a  Judgment  of  an  Inferior  Court  of  Common  Pleas  held  at  Salem  in  ^une  before 
againft  the  Executors  of  Coll.  John  Wainright  Dec'd  for  One  Hundred  &  thirty 
feven  Pounds  feventeen  fhillings,  But  he  miftaking  the  time  of  the  Court  appealed 
from,  Calling  it  the  third  Tuefday  of  May,  when  it  ought  to  have  been  the  lafl 
Tuefday  of  June,  The  Court  quafh'd  his  Reafons,  fo  that  now  he  cannot  proceed  in 
the  Law  without  an  Order  of  the  General  Court;  Humbly  Praying  that  he  may  be 
enabled  to  amend  his  Reafons,  And  that  giving  due  Notice  to  the  adverfe  Party  his 
Caufe  may  be  tried  at  the  next  Superiour  Court  at  Ipfwich  in  May  next.  That  he 
may  not  be  ruined  for  fo  fmall  a  miftake. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent"?'  Ordered,  that  the  Petitioner  ferve  the  adverfe  Party 
with  a  Copy  of  this  Petition,  that  they  may  be  heard  before  this  Court  on  Wednef- 
day  the  twenty  firft  Currant  at  ten  o  Clock  in  the  forenoon.  If  they  have  any  thing 
to  alledge.  Why  the  Prayer  of  this  Petition  fliould  not  be  granted. 

In  Council;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W?  Tailer. 

A  Bill  for  the  better  regulating  Town  &  Proprietary  Meetings.  Pafs'd  by 
the  Reprefenf?"  In  Council;  Read  three  feveral  times,  and  Concur'd  to  be 
Engrofs'd  with  Amendments. 

A  Report  of  the  Committee  appointed  for  the  Examination  of  the  Memorial  & 
Accompts  of  John  Uflier  Efq':  vizt. 

Purfuant  to  an  Order  of  this  Court  of  the  fourteenth  Inftant  appointing  us  a 
Committee  to  confider  the  Memorial  of  John  UJher  Efq,  We  have  infpedled  the 
Accompts  of  the  faid  UJher,  and  the  former  Proceeding  of  this  [Court]  relating 
thereto,  &  have  heard  the  faid  Uflier  there  upon.  And  are  of  Opinion,  that  there  is 
nothing  due  from  this  Court  to  the  faid  UJher,  and  that  therefore  the  Memorial  be 
Difmifs'd :  All  which  is  humbly  fubmitted. 

Dec:  21  (Signed)     By  Order  of  the  Committee 

And"  Belcher. 


In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent™     Read  &  Concur'd  with  the  Committee. 
In  Council;    Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 


Upon 


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Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Cord  JVing,  Ship  wright.  Son  of  Cpt.  John  ff^ing 

of  Bq^on  Mariner  Dec'l  Importing,  That  at  the  Infcriour  Court  held  at  Bofton  in 

January  171 1.  Sarah  Tomlin  as  Executrix  to  the  Will  of  her  former  Hufband  John 

Street  Dec"!;  And  as  Adminiftratrix  to  the  Eftate  of  her  late  Hufband  'Thomas  Tomlin 

Dec"!  Inteftate  recovered  two  Judgments.     And  again  at  the  Superiour  Court  held  at 

Bofton  in  May  \~i\i.  as  Executrix  aforefaid  obtain'd  a  third  Judgment,  all  againft  the 

Eftate  of  the  faid  Cpt.  John  Wing  Dec'!  The  feveral  Sums  by  her  recover'd  including 

Colls  of  Suit  amounting  in  the  whole  to  the  Sum  of  One  hundred  forty  fix  Pounds 

or  thereabouts.  That  three  feveral  executions  ifiued  out  upon  the  faid  Judgments  in 

the  Month  o{  December  17 12.     That  on  the  twenty  fifth  Day  of  the  faid  Month  the 

SherifF  of  Middlefex  levied  the  fame  upon  a  Parcell  of  Upland  &  Meadow  lying  in 

the  Townfliip  of  Worcejler  ftiewn  by  the  faid  Sarah  Tomlin  to  be  the  Eftate  of  the 

faid  Capt.  John  Wing  Dec'd,  Which  Land  with  all  the  Eftate  which  he  died  feiz'd  of 

in  Worcefter  aforefaid  was  appraiz'd  at  the  Sum  of  One  hundred  &  fifty  two  Pounds, 

feventeen  penny  halfpenny  weight  and  being  reckon'd  juft  enough  to  fatisfie  the  faid 

Executions   &   Charges  thereupon.     The  faid  Sarah  Tomlin  accepted    the  fame    in 

Satisfad;ion  thereof  accordingly  &  paid  the  Sheriff  his  Fees;   That  he  has  Reafon  to 

think  that  neither  the  Sheriff  himfelf  nor  the  Apprizers  knew  of  all  the  Eftate,  which 

the  si  Cpt.   John  Wing  died    feiz'd  off  in  the  Town  of  Worcejler  (altho'  it  be  fo 

cxprefs'd  in  the  Apprizment  in  very  ambiguous  terms)  for  that  really  the  Eftate  of 

the  faid  Cpt.  John  Wing  in  Worcejler  is  worth  at  leaft  Five  hundred  Pounds,  That  he 

has  tendered  her  the  aforefaid  Sum  of  One  hundred  &  fifty  two  Pounds  with  Intereft 

thereof  from  the  time  that  the  faid  Executions  were  levied  upon  the  faid  Eftate,  in 

order  to  free  the  fame]  from  the  Incumbrance  aforefaid ;  That  the  faid  Sarah  Tomlin 

relying  on  the  Sheriffs  returns,  &  the  Appraizers  Doings  as  aforefaid,  utterly  refufes 

to  accept  the  Sum  offered  her,  &  to  releafe  &  quit  her  Claim  in  the  faid  Eftate  un- 

juftly  holding  Poffeffion  thereof.  That  he  is  without  Remedy  in  the  Law  without 

relief  from  the  General  Court,  and  muft  loofe  an  Eftate  worth  above  Five  hundred 

Pounds  (which  was  appraiz'd  by  Men  moft  certainly  ignorant  of  the  Quantity  of 

Acres  or  the  intrinfick  Value  thereof)  at  no  more  than  One  hundred  &  fifty  two 

Pounds;  That  all  the  Eftate  of  the  faid  Cpt.  John  Wing  was  given  to  him  by  his  laft 

Will  &  Teftement;    Humbly  Praying  that  the  General  Court  pleafe  to  take  the 

Premiffes  into  Confideration.     That  the  faid  Eftate  may  be  confirm'd  to  him  &  his 

Heirs  for  ever,  Purfuant  to  his  Father's  Will,  upon  his  paying  to  the  faid  Sarah 

Tomlin  the  principal   Sums  which    ftie    recovered  againft  his  faid  Father's    Eftate, 

together  with  the  Cofts  of  Suit  &  Sheriff  Fees  &  other  Charges  with  the  Intereft  of 

the  whole.  For  that  the  faid  Sarah  Tomlin  has  been  at  no  Expence  to  improve  or 

increafe  the  Value  of  the  faid  Eftate  &c. 

In  Council ;  Ordered,  that  the  Petitioner  ferve  the  adverfe  Party  with  a  Copy  of 
this  Petition  that  they  may  be  heard  before  this  Court  on  the  fecond  Fryday  of  the 
next  Seffions,  If  flie  hath  any  thing  to  obje6t  why  the  Prayer  thereof  fhould  not  be 
granted. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefenff     Read  &  Concur'd.  < 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

A  Bill '  entituled  An  A5t  in  addition  to  an  AEl  for  the  Settlement  £5?  Diftribution  of 
the  Eflates  of  Inteftates  made  i£  Pajsd  in  the  fourth  Year  of  the  Reign  of  King  William 
^  ^een  Mary  &?  Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefenf"  to  be  Engroft.         In   Council; 

Concur'd  to  be  Engroft. 

In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'"  Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Nathaniel  Goodhue 
&  Thomas  Choat, 

Ordered,  that  the  Petitioners  ferve  the  Town  of  Ipjwich  with  a  Copy  of  this 
Petition,  that  they  may  be  heard  before  this  Court  on  the  fecond  Fryday  of  the  next 
Seflion,   If  they  have  any  thing  to  objedl  why  the   Prayer  thereof  ftiould   not  be 

Z  granted. 


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granted.  And  that  in  the  mean  time.  The  Perfons  &  Eftates  about  which  there  is 
a  Controverfy  continue  to  pay  to  the  Miniftry  as  formerly. 
In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W""  Tailer. 

Adjourn'd  to  To  Morrow  at  Ten  o  Clock  in  the  Morning. 


Thurfday  Dec'  22,  17 15 


Prefent  in  Council. 


The  Hon""  TVilliam  Tailer  Efq'  Lieu.  Governf 


Wait  Wintrop 
Eli/ha  Hutchinfon 
Sam'.  Sewall 
Jojeph  Lynde 
Eli'"  Hutchinfon 
Penn  Townfend 


Efq' 


Nath'.  Byfield 
John  Higginfon 
And"  Belcher 
Edw^.  Bromfield 
Nath'.  Payne 
'Thomas  Noyes 


Efq' 


John  Clark 
Addin:  Davenport 
Tho'  Hutchinfon 
Thomas  Fitch 
Edm^  ^incey 
Adam  Wintrop. 


Kfq' 


A  N  Engroft  Bill  entituled  An  A£i  for  the  better  regulating  Town  &"  Proprietary 
•*^    Meetings;         Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent™  to  be  Enaded. 

In  Council;   Read  &  Concur'd.         And  figned  by  the  Lieu!  Governour. 

An  Engrofs'd  Bill  entituled  An  A5f  in  addition  to  an  A£l  for  the  Settlement  &  Dif- 
tribution  of  the  EJiates  of  Intejiates  &'.  Pafs'd  by  the  Reprefent'"  to  be  Ena6ted. 
In  Council ;   Read  &  Concur'd.     And  figned  by  the  Lieu!  Governour. 

In  Council,  Upon  Reading  the  Petition  of  Richard  Car  of  Salijhury  Mariner, 
which  is  at  large  fett  forth  in  the 

Ordered,  that  the  Prayer  of  this  Petition  be  granted,  and  that  the  Petitioner 
ferve  the  adverfe  Party  with  a  Copy  of  this  Order  fourteen  days  at  leaft  before  the 
Courts  Sitting.         In  the  Houfe  of  Reprefent'?'     Read  &  Concur'd. 

Confented  to,     W"  Tailer. 

A  Meffage  to  the  Reprefent'f  by  Andrew  Belcher  &  John  Clark  Efq?  That  the 
Bills  for  Regulating  the  Colleftors  &  the  Admiralty  fees  being  of  great  Confequence, 
the  Board  defire  they  may  be  deferr'd  untill  the  next  Seflion,  That  they  may  have  a 
more  mature  Conlideration  of  them. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Reprefent"'  by  Cpt.  Noyes  that  the  Houfe  have  defer'd  the 
Confideration  of  the  Vote  for  Two  hundred  Pounds  to  M!  Agent  Bummer  till  next 
Seflion. 

A  Meffage  from  the  Hon"!'  the  Lieu!  Governour  by  John  Clark  &  Addington 
Davenport  Efq"  to  the  Reprefent'f  to  Defire  their  Attendance  on  him  forthwith  in 
the  Council  Chamber. 

And  M'  Speaker  &  the  Houfe  being  accordingly  come  up.  The  Hon"!'  the 
Lieu!  Governour  fignified  his  Pleafure  That  this  Great  &  General  Court  or  Aflembly 
be  Prorogued  unto  Wednefday  the  twenty  fecond  oi  february  next  at  ten  o  Clock  in 
the  Morning,  which  was  publifhed  by  the  Secretary. 


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Index 


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Index 


Accounts,  treafurers,  7. 
Adams,  Hugh,  petition  of,  77. 

Jacob,  Jr.,  petition  of,  25,  39. 
Nathanael,  70. 
Addington,  Ifaac,  allowance  to,  55,  72. 
Addrefs  to  the  Icing,  4,  7,  73. 
Allen,  Francis,  petition  of,  20,  21. 

Jeremiah,  Treafurer,   accompts,  7,  9,    10,  66; 

eleftion  of,    25  ;  allowance  to,   29,   31,   36, 

45,  56  ;  mention,  18. 
Jofeph,  xvii. 
Ambrofcogging  river,  15. 
Amfden,  Ifaac,  petition  of,  II. 
Andover,  16. 

Andros,  Sir  Edmund,  54,  82. 
Antony,  Benjamin,  an  Indian,  10. 
Appleton,  John,  xvii ;  elefted   to  Council,    2  ;  takes 

oath,  60  ;  on  Wenham  cafe,  30,  92. 
Samuel,    on   Wenham   cafe,   30,   92  ;  on  New 

Hampfhire  line,  83. 
Arnold,    Seth,  Captain,    xvii ;  elefted    monitor,    2 ; 

on    entertainment  of  governor,  ii  ;  on  Coni- 

haifet  petition,  17. 
Arrowficlc  Ifland,  4,  7,  12,  15,  23. 
Afliley,  John,  xvii  ;  on  Hatfield  petition,  92. 
Afliurst,  William,  x. 
Aflanomifco,  I  2. 
Affembly,   journal    of    May    feiSon,    1  ;    July,    3  5 ; 

Auguft,  51  ;  bill  for  frequent  calling  of,  83. 
Afleflment,  town  and  county,  bill  for,  40,  42. 
Atkins,  Thomas,  78. 
Attorney   General,   eleftion  of,  25,  28,  31,  32,  80, 

81,  82,  83. 
Auftan,  John,  39,  44. 

Baker,  Thomas,  7. 

Balch,  Samuel,  xvii,  37. 

Bane,  Lewis,  41. 

Barker,  Thomas,  Captain,  xvii. 

Bamftable  court  feffions,  bill  for,  14,  17,  25;  men- 
tioned, 29,  77,  87, 

Beacon  Ifland,  see  Light  houfe. 

Beauchamp,  Magdalene,  39. 

Belcher,  Andrew,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  on  tax  com- 
mittee, 18;  petition,  23  ;  on  Ulher's  petition, 

82,  94  ;  on  bills  of  credit,  86,  94 ;  mentioned, 
4.  36,  39.  42.  45.  46.  5°.  56.  83,  96. 

Jonathan,  23. 

Bennet,  John,  xviii. 

Bernard,  John,  63. 

Berwick,  6,  20,  21. 

Billing,  Roger,  petition  of,  78. 

Billings,  John,  petition  of,  78. 

Bills  of  credit,  of  other  colonies,  28;  condition  of, 
35,  37  ;  emifTion  of,  48,  93  ;  altering  or 
counterfeiting,  64,  79 ;  deflruftion  of,  40, 
66,   86. 

Bills,  figning  of,  by  governor,  55. 

Black  Lead  Mine  Hill,  16. 

Black  Point,  15. 

Blackwell,  Caleb,  petition  of,  28,  72. 

Blue  Hills,  meeting  houfe,  88. 


Bommazeen,  Captain,  47. 

Bond,  Major,  xiii. 

Boflon,   impotl   office   burnt,    3 ;   powder  houfe,   set 

Powder  houfe. 
Boundary,   with  New  Hampfhire,   83 ;   with  Rhode 

Ifland,  3,  25,  38. 
Bowles,  John,  61. 
Bowman,  Francis,  xvii. 
Boyden,  John,  Captain,  xvii. 
Bradford,  John,   Major,  eleftion  of,   23;  takes  oath, 

24 ;  on  tax  committee,  45  ;  mentioned,  28, 

33.  70- 
Bradflreet,  Humphry,  petition  of,  83. 

Simon,  heirs  of,  14. 
Bramhal,  Jofeph,  petition  of,  71, 
Brantrey,  memorial  of,  87,  88. 
Brattle,  Edward,  petition  of,  62,  84. 
Bridgewater,  feparate  precinft  in,  8,  62;  new  meeting 

houfe,  76;  mentioned,  33,  66,  86. 
Bridgham,  Henry,  petition  of,  29. 
Brigham,  John,  petition  of  3,  12,  45. 
Brimfield,  5,  6,  16. 

Briftol  County,  tax,  29 ;  boundary  of,  87. 
Bromfield,  Edward,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  mentioned, 

46,  50. 
Brookfield,  afTeffment,  16,  19,  44;  mentioned,  5,  6, 

12,  30,  40,  74,  87. 
Brown,  Hopeftil,  petition  of,  3,  45. 
Jofeph,  petition  of,  9,  21. 
Samuel,  elefted  to  Council,  2 ;  takes  oath,  60  ; 

mentioned,  61. 
Brunfwick,  eflabliflied  and  named,    15;  fort  at,   23, 

37.  41.  42.  43.  47.  49.  50.  54.  55- 
Buckminfler,  Jofeph,  Major,  xvii. 

Bulkley ,  73. 

Bull,  Ezekiel,  petition  of,  30. 

Job,  14,  22. 
Burbank,  John,  39. 
Burges,   Elizeus,    Colonel,    z;  commiilion  read,  xiii, 

59 ;  preparations  for  receiving,   11,   12,   26, 

32,  33,  60. 
Burglary,  bill  againfl,  14,  17,  25. 
Burnap,  Jofeph,  7 1 . 
Burrill,    John,   Speaker  of  the  Houfe,    xvii,   i  ;  land 

grant.  S3.  SS;  mentioned,  3,  30,  62,  92. 
Buttrick,  John,  xvii. 
Byfield,    Nathaniel,    xi  ;    inveighs  againfl    Dummer, 

xii,    xiii  ;    elefted    to   Council,    2,    70 ;    on 

trade    committee,    82;    on    conference    over 

Attorney  General,  83. 

Campbell,  John,  petition  ofj  2 1 ,  26. 

Canada,  Englifh  captives,  5  ;  expedition  of  1 7 11 ,  19, 

20,  23. 
Cape  Breton,  7,  38,  42,  73. 
Cape  Porpus,  I  5. 

Cape  Sable  Indians,  36,  42,  44,  49. 
Car,  George,  90. 

James,  90. 

John,  90. 

Richard,  petition  of,  90,  94,  96. 
Carolina  Indians,  28. 

Cary, 


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Cary,  Nathanael,  petition  of,  19. 
Cafco  Bay,  9,  15. 

Fort,  4,  7,   12,   23,  24,  32,  41,  49,  so,  52, 

54- 
Caftle  William,  5,  19. 
Cawley,  James,    Captain,   xvii ;  petition  of,  9  ;  on 

committee,  53;  mentioned,  i,  3,  4,  28,  37, 

45.  5'.  53.  55- 
Cayley,  Captain,  36,  38. 
Chamber  of  Houfe,  repairs,  3. 
Chambers,   Charles,   Captain,  xvii ;  petition  of,    19; 

on  committee  to  deftroy  bills  of  credit,  40,  67  ; 

on  tax  committee,  45 ;  on  addrefs  to  the  king, 

73  ;   on  Ufher's  petition,  8z  ;  mentioned,  7, 

10,  28,  50,  53,  56,  69. 
Chandler,  John,  report  on  Brimfield,   6  ;  mentioned, 

30,  87. 
John,  Jr.,  64,  74. 

Chapin,  Jofiah,  petition  of,  17,  43. 

Samuel,  17. 
Chaplain  for  fort  at  Winter  Harbor,  9. 
Charter  privileges,  73. 
Chatham,  75,  77. 
Chebaquidduck,  award,  89. 
Cheever,  Samuel,  Rev.,  63,  84. 
Chipman,  John,  xviii;  mentioned,  i,  45,  46,  82. 
Choat,  Thomas,  95. 
Churches,  Synod  of,  8. 
Clap,  Hopeftil,  xvii. 

Samuel,  xvii;  on  committee  on  accounts,    10; 

on  Dorcheller  committee,  89;  mentioned,  i, 

7,  24,  z8. 
William,  petition  of,  50. 
Clark,  John,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  on  bills  of  credit, 

67  ;   on  addrefs  to  the  king,  7  3 ;  on  Watertown 

affair,   75  ;  mentioned,   4,   43,   45,   46,   49, 

50'  54.  S5.  96- 

Clerk  of  Houfe,  i,  36,  42.      5i?^  John  White. 

Coffin,  James,  xviii. 

Coker,  Benjamin,  16,  22. 

Cole,  Henry,  14. 

Mary,  petition  of,  14,  18,  31. 

Colman,  Benjamin,  8,  18. 

Commiffion,  governor's,  59,  60. 

Concord,  boundary,  27. 

ConihafTet,  6,  16,  17. 

Connefticut,  6. 

Converfe,  Jofiah,  Captain,  xvii,  22,  27. 

Cooke,  Elifha,  65  ;  elefted  to  Council,  2;  on  recep- 
tion of  Burges,  3  2 ;  memorial  of,  65;  men- 
tioned, 67. 
Eliflia,  Jr.,  xvii;  on  addrefs  to  the  king,  4;  on 
treafurer's  accounts,  7,  lo;  on  tax  committee, 
45;  on  trade  committee,  82;  on  Ufher's 
petition,  84;  mentioned,  3,  6,   19,  24,  28, 

31,  32,  49,  50,  60,  61,  70,  73,  78. 
Coomes,  Hephzibah,  petition  of,  5,  14,  31,  84,  85. 

Richard,  petition  of,  j,  14,  24,  31,  37,  84. 

Cotta,  John,  Jr.,  60,  67. 

Cotton,  Rev.,  71. 

Council,  allowance  to,  27  ;  memorial  of,  4  ;  meetings 
to  be  earlier,  5  3  ;  minutes  of,  November  and 
December,  1 71  5,  x,  59. 

Councillors,  eleftion  of,  i,  61,  67,  69,  70. 

Court  of  judicature,  Hampfhire  County,  88,  90. 

Courts,  Barnftable,  14,  17,  25. 

Creditors,  bill  to  enable,  againfl  abfconding  debtors, 
78,  80. 

Currency,  18.      5if^  Bills  of  credit. 

Cufhing,  John,  elefted  to  Council,  2 ;  on  Hingham 
committee,  1 7 ;  takes  oath,  60  ;  on  Bridge- 
water  committee,  76;  mentioned,  39,  59. 


Danforth,  John,  8. 

Dartmouth,  miniflry  at,  28,  72. 

Davenport,  Addington,  clefted  to  Council,  2 ;  on 
committee  on  Eaftern  Parts,  7  ;  deftruftion  of 
bills  of  credit,  67,  86 ;  on  addrefs  to  the 
king,  73  J  on  Ufher's  petition,  82 ;  men- 
tioned, 7,  39,  42,  43,  49,  50,  56,  59,  61, 
69,  96. 

David,  Mallalawing,  3. 

Davis,  Ebenezer,  83. 

Davis,  Simon,  Captain,  xviii,  I. 

Davifon,  Nicholas,  Captain,  83. 

Debtors,  bill  to  prevent  oppreffion  of,  77,  79;  bill  to 
enable  creditors  to  colleft  from  abfconding,  78, 
80. 

Deerfield,  74. 

Delane,  Jabez,  petition  of,  72. 

Delano,  John,  petidon  of,  28. 
Jonathan,  xviii. 

Denifon,  William,  xvii  ;  on  deflruftion  of  bills  of 
credit,  40 ;  on  addrefs  to  the  king,  73 ;  on 
Ufher's  petition,  82;  mentioned,  I,  3,  25, 
46,  53.  69,  70. 

Dike,  Rowland,  18. 

Dining  the  Houfe,  account  for,  18. 

Dor,  Edward,  petition  of,  61. 

Dorchefter,  20,  88, 

Dowding,  Jofeph,  44. 

Dudley,  Jofeph,  Governor,  criticifes  Houfe,    ix,   x, 
34 ;   approves  Councillors,    3  ;   letters    from, 
4,  44  ;  fpeeches  to  Houfe,  35,  51  ;  allowance 
to,  56  ;   mentioned,  27,  82,  83. 
William,  21. 

Dukes  County,  tax,  29. 

Dummer,  Jeremiah,  xi,  xii,  xiii,  xiv  ;  petition  of,  23  ; 
accounts  of,  25  ;  allowance  to,  55,  56,  84, 
96;  appointed  to  agency,  85  •  mentioned,  4, 
7,  62. 

Duxbury,  78. 

Dwight,  Henry,  petition  of,  13. 

Eames,  Thomas,  19. 

Eaftern  Parts,  fettlement  of,  9,  13,  14,  23,  32. 

Eaftham,  75,  77. 

Eaton,  Jofeph,  Captain,  xvii. 

Edfon,  Jofiah,  66. 

Eliot,  John,  Rev.,  74. 

Ellis,  Robert,  Dr.,  account  of,  7  ;  21  ;  mentioned,  69. 

Emery,  Samuel,  petition  of,  9,  15. 

Epps,  Daniel,  xvii  ;   on  reception  of  governor,   1 1  ; 

on   tax  meafure,  45  ;  mentioned,    I,  31,   53, 

55,  61,  69,  82. 
EfTex  County,  29,  90. 
Eftates,  fettlement  of  inteftate,  95,  96. 
Excife  bill,  18,  zo,  41,  48. 

Fairfield,  William,  92. 

Farr,  Stephen,  petition  of,  27. 

Fees,  regulation  of,  25,  32,  33,  36,  37,  44,  96. 

Fifheries,  42. 

Fifke,  Thomas,  Captain,  xvii. 

Fitch,  Thomas,  eledled  to  Council,  2  ;  on  Hingham 
committee,  1 7  ;  on  tax  committee,  1 8  ;  peti- 
tion of,  19;  on  deftruftion  of  bills  of  credit, 
67 ;  on  Hopkins'  legacy,  70,  80 ;  on  trade 
committee,  82  ;  mentioned,  43,  45,  46,  47, 

49.  54.  55- 
Flagg,  John,  allowance  to,  56,  89. 
Flood,  Henry,  83. 
Fobes,  Edward,  xvii. 
Foot,  John,  xvii. 
Framingham,  12,  22. 

Frances, 


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Frances,  Stephen,  22. 
Freeman,  Conftant,  xviii,  13. 

David,  xviii. 
Freetown,  miniftry  at,  32. 

French,  Stephen,  xvii  ;  on  Hingham  committee,  17. 
French  at  Cape  Breton,  38,  73. 
Frontiers,  wellern,  furvey  of,  46,  52. 
Froll,  Charles,  15,  41. 
Fulham,  Francis,  Captain,  xvii ;  petition  of,  3,  4;  on 

tax  committee,  45  ;  on  trade  committee,  82  ; 

mentioned,  3,  24,  33,  50,  53,  55,  56. 
Fuller,  John,  xvii. 

Gardner,  John,  furveyor,  21,  28,  38,  83. 

Gerrifh,  Jofeph,  8. 

Getchel,  Jeremiah,  petition  of,  62. 

Goddard,  Edward,  petition  of,  4$. 

Goffe,  Edmund,  Colonel,  on  Indian  commiilion,  36, 

42,  44,  60. 
Goodhue,  Nathaniel,  petition  of,  95. 
Grants,  right  of  Houfe  over,  50. 
Great  Brevvfter,  see  Light  houfe. 
Green,  Bartholomew,  ix,  12,  52. 

Jofeph,  petition  of,  12. 
Greenfield,  Charles,  petition  of,  64. 
Greenland,  John,  xvii. 
Greenwood,  Samuel,  petition  of,  19. 
Groton,  boundary  line,  4. 
Guild,  John,  xvii. 
Gulliver,  Jonathan,  petition  of,  78. 

Hadorell,  Mary,  petition  of,  39. 

Hadley,  5,  12,  64,  92. 

Hale,  Jofeph,  xvii. 

Hall,  Gerfliom,  xviii,  36. 
Jofeph,  xviii. 

Hamlet,  Ipfwich,  70. 

Hammond,  Jofeph,   xviii ;    petition  of,    9,    12;    on 
boundary  committee,  15. 

Hampftiire  County,  1 2  ;  tax,  29  ;  court  of  judicature, 
88,  90. 

Hampton,  79, 

Harvard  College,  15. 

Harwich,  77. 

Haffanamcefit,  3. 

HaiTanamifca,  3 1 . 

Haflings,  Jonathan,  petition  of,  14,  23,  31. 
Thomas,  54. 

Hatfield,  miniftry  at,  92. 

Haverhill,  83. 

Pond,  21,  64. 

Hayne.;,  John,  heirs  of,  10,  32,  45. 
John,  41,  69. 
Jolhua,  petition  of,  45. 

Healy,  Nathanael,  complaint  of,  49,  7 1 . 

Hedge,  Elilha,  petition  of,  75. 

Hemp,  raifing  of,  88,  90. 

Henchman,  Nathaniel,  20,  73. 

Herrick,  Jofeph,  92. 

Higginfon,  John,  Rev.,  64,  65. 

John,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  committee  on  Eaft- 
ern  Parts,  7  ;  petition  of,  21,  28,  38;  on 
Wcnham  committee,  30,  92 ;  on  Indian 
commilTion,  36 ;  takes  oath,  60 ;  on  New 
Hampfhire  boundary,  84  ;  mentioned,  39. 
Nathanael,  21,  38. 

Hill,  Jofeph,  petition,  75. 
,  General,  23. 

Hiller,  Jofeph,  allowance  to,  55,  56. 

Hingham,  6,  16,  17. 

Hitchcock,   Luke,  xvii ;  on  addrefs  to  the  king,  4 ; 
mentioned,  46,  92. 


Hodges,  Henry,  Captain,  xviii,  77. 

Hofman,  John,  62. 

Holbrook,  John,  61. 

Hollingfworth,  Richard,  26. 

Holyoke,  Edward,  63,  84. 

Hopkins,  Edward,  26,  80.      See  Moguncoy. 

Hopkinton,  naming  of,  80. 

Houghton,  John,  xvii,  27. 

Houfing,  prevent  damage  to,  80,  81. 

Hubbard,  Ifaac,  petition  of,  1 4. 

Hunt,  Samuel,  72. 

Hutchins,  John,  xvii. 

Hutchinfon,    Edward,   fettlement   at   Arrowfick,    4, 

15;  on  trade  committee,  82;  on  loan  com- 
mittee, 86,  94  ;  mentioned,  78. 
Eliakim,  elcfted  to  Council,  2  ;  on  reception  of 

governor,  32  ;  on   burned  bills  of  credit,  39  ; 

on  tax  committee,  45  ;  on  trade  committee, 

82  ;  mentioned,   56. 
Eliflia,   elefted    to   Council,   2  ;    on  addrefs  to 

king,  7;  on  reception  of  governor,   32;  on 

tax  committee,  45,  46. 
Thomas,    elcfted    to    Council,    2  ;    on    Eaftem 

Parts,   14,  47  ;  on  tax  committee,  46,    50; 

on  deftruftion  of  bills  of  credit,  67  ;  on  trade 

committee,  82  ;  on  loan  committee,  86,  94 ; 

mentioned,  35,  45. 

Impost  and  tonnage,  rates  and  duties,    18,   20,   23, 
24,  29,  30,  37,  41. 

office  at  Bofton,  burnt,  3. 

officer,  cleftion  of,  25. 
Indians,  South  Carolina,  28,  41.      See  Cape  Sable. 
Ingofs,  Eleazer,  62. 
Ipfwich,  7,  8,  20,  28,  70,  95. 

Jencks,  John,  Major,  38. 

Jofeph,  41,  93. 
Jones,  Benjamin,  xviii. 

Samuel,  Jr.,  87. 
Journals,  printing  o(,  ix,  34,  48,  52,  56. 
Judges,  allowance  to,  56. 

Kelloc,  Jofeph,  7, 

Martin,  7,  74. 
Kemball,  Caleb,  20. 

Samuel,  20. 
Kent,  John,  25. 
Ketteticut,  33,  86. 

Kimball,  ,  14. 

King,  addrefs  to,  4,  7,  73  ;  fpeech  of,  35. 
Kittery,  6,  20,  24. 

Knowlton,    Nathan,    xvii ;    on    tax  committee,   45  ; 
mentioned,   55. 

Lancaster,  3,  11,  12,  22,  72. 

Lands  and  tenements,  liable  to  debts,  9 1 . 

Laws,  expiring,  6  ;  paffed  in  feflions  of  1715,  xiv. 

Legg,  John,  petition  of,  62,  76,  84. 

Leicefter,  22. 

Leighton,  John,  i  5. 

Leonard,  George,  xviii,  66,  77. 

Leverett,  John,  allowance  to,  56  ;  on  Hopkins'  leg- 
acy, 70,  80. 

Light  houfe  on  Great  Brewfter,  18,  24,  29,  30,  33, 
36,  37,  40,  41,  89,  90. 

Little,  Ifaac,  Captain,  xvii,  17. 

Littleton,  73. 

Livcrmore,   Daniel,   petition    of,    3,  4  ;    mentioned, 
87. 

Loan  bill,  86,  94. 

Long  Meadow  Precinft,  1 1 . 

Lord, 


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Lord,  Jofeph,  41. 

Lothrop,  Jofeph,  xvii,  33,  81. 

,  Captain,  79. 

Lovering,  David,  14,  17. 

Lynde,  Benjamin,  elefted  to  Council,  2 ;  takes  oath, 
60;  mentioned,  75,  83. 

Jofeph,  elefted  to  Council,  2 ;  mentioned,  i . 

Maccartv,  Efther,  29. 

Florence,  5,  24,  29,  31,  84,  85. 

Sarah,  29. 

William,  24. 
Macquoit,  15. 
Maguncoog,  see  Moguncoy. 
Maine,  councillors,  2. 
Manchefter,  William,  xviii. 
Manley,  William,  Sen.,  40. 
Marblehead,  gunner,  9;  meeting  houfe,  62,  84. 
March,  Lieut.  Col.,  90. 
Marion,  Jofeph,  72. 
Marlborough,  3,  11,  12. 
Marfti,  Daniel,  xvii,  5. 
Marfhfield,  78. 

Maffachufetts,  boundaries,  3,  25,  38,  83;  councillors, 
2  ;  right  to  Pifcataqua  river,  6  ;  fettling  Eaftern 
Parts,  4,  7. 
Mather,  Atherton,  xvii. 

Increafe,  1 8. 
Mayo,  John,  61. 

Samuel,  xviii. 
Mears,  Robert,  73. 
Medium  of  exchange,  11,  33. 
Mellifh,  Aaron,  30. 
Melvil,  David,  75. 
Members  of  Houfe,  lift  of,  xvii. 
Mendon,  14,  17,  43. 
Merion,  John,  14,  17. 
Merrel,  Amos,  40. 

Jeremy,  40. 
Merrimack  river  ferry,  90. 
Merry  Meeting  Bay,  I  5 . 
Middlefex  County  tax,  29. 
Milton,  20. 
Minot,  James,  40. 

Mitchel, ,  33,  87. 

Mitchelfon,  Edward,  12,  28. 

Moguncoy,  26,  27,  38,  62,  69,  70,  80. 

Momeufque,  George,  21. 

Money,  railing  of,  18,  20,  22. 

Monomoy  beach,  75. 

Moodey,  Samuel,  petition  of,  9,  15. 

William,  xvii,  50. 
Morfe,  Jofeph,  Captain,  xvii,  4,  1 1 . 

Jofeph,  Rev.,  88. 

Nahan,  74. 

Nantucket,  tax,  29. 

Nafhoba,  4,  72. 

Natick,  26,  69. 

Naval  ftores,  produftion  of,  18,  20,  22,  73. 

Negroes,  duty  remitted,  36,  39. 

Nelfon,  John,  43,  60,  67,  94. 

New   Hamplhire,  duties  impofed  by,  6,    21  ;  trading 

vi'ith    French,    38;  veflels  as    coafters,    39; 

boundary  line,  83. 
New  Plymouth,  councillors,  2. 
Newbury,  9,  21,  90. 
Newell,  Jofeph,  5,  24,  31,  84. 
Newitchawanock,  15. 
Newman,  John,  xvii,  54. 
Newton,  Thomas,  32. 
Newton  or  Newtown,  meeting  houfe,  1 1 ,  49,  71. 


Norden,  Nathaniel,  elefted  to  Council,  2;  mentioned, 
59,  60. 

Northampton,  5. 

Northen,  Ezekiel,  xvii. 

Northfield,  13,  19. 

Nova  Scotia,  2. 

Nowell,  Jofeph,  24.      See  Newell. 

Noyes,  Oliver,  Captain,  xvii;  on  boundary  line  with 
Rhode  Ifland,  3  ;  on  committee  on  petitions, 
4,  7,  9,  18,  19,  31  ;  reception  of  governor, 
II,  12;  petition  of,  19;  fort  at  Winter 
Harbor,  47  ;  tax  committee,  45  ;  fupply  of 
treafury,  51  ;  deftruftion  of  bills  of  credit, 
67  ;  addrefs  to  the  king,  73  ;  on  trade  com- 
mittee, 82  ;  mentioned,  I,  2,  3,  28,  31,  32, 
33.  43.  53.  55.  60,  78,  81,  96. 
TljCJBfts,  xiii ;  on  Wenham  affair,  30,  92; 
elefted  to  Council,  70  ;  on  New  Hamplhire 
boundary,  83. 

Oaks,  Thomas,  65. 

Odiorn,  Jotham,  42. 

Officers,  civil,  68,  85  ;  townftiip,  88,  90,  94,  96. 

Oliver,  Daniel,  70,  80. 

Thomas,  elefted  to  Council,   2  ;    on  Hingham 
al&ir,  17;  mentioned,  46,  47,  50. 

Oppreffion  of  debtors,  77,  79. 

Orders  of  the  Houfe,  2. 

Ofgood,  Peter,  Captain,  xvii,  2,  28,  33,  47. 

Otis,  John,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  accounts,  25  ;  on 
Newtown  report,  71  ;  takes  oath,  75  ;  men- 
tioned, 1 1 . 

Oucuncanog,  78. 

Oxford,  3. 

Paine,  Nathanael,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  account  of, 
25  ;  takes  oath,  68  ;  mentioned,  53,  77. 
William,  xvii ;  on  addrefs  to  the  king,  4  ;  on 
expired  laws,  6  ;  on  treafurer's  accounts,  7, 
10  ;  on  light  houfe,  24,  90  ;  on  Indian 
miffion,  43;  on  weftern  frontiers,  46;  on 
fupply  of  treafury,  51,  54  ;  on  deftruftion  of 
bills  of  credit,  67;  mentioned,  19,  21,  36, 
37.  45.  50,  53.  55.  60,  61,  69,  78. 
William,  account,  3. 

Palmer,  John,  62. 

Parker,  Nathaniel,  71. 

Parrie,  William,  25. 

Parfons,  Jofeph,  xvii  ;  on  petitions,  3  ;  on  Brimfield 
grant,  6  ;  on  reception  of  governor,  1 1  ;  pref- 
ervation  of  pine  trees,  1 1  ;  on  road,  1 2  ;  on 
tax  meafure,  45,  mentioned,  33,  61,  84. 

Partridge,  John,  xvii,  6. 

Samuel,  petitions  of,  5,  13  ;   account,  7  ;  memo- 
rials, 12,  42  ;  mentioned,  44. 
William,  54. 

Patch,  Thomas,  20,  30. 

Pawtucket  river  bridge,  41,  77,  93. 

Payne,  Samuel,  xvii.      See  Paine. 

Peebody,  Oliver,  33. 
Richard,  33. 

Pejepfcot  Falls,  fort  at,  15,  24,  ^-j,  41,  42,  43,  47, 

49.  52.  54.  55- 
Pell,  Edward,  3. 

Pemberton,  Ebenezer,  xiv,  8,  18. 
Penicook,  46. 

Pepperell,  William,  42,  43. 
Perkins,  Tobijah,  xvii. 
Petidons,  committee  on,  3. 
Phillips,  John,  i. 
Phips,  William,  71. 
Pierce,  Stephen,  xvii. 

Pike, 


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Pike,  Hugh,  petition  of,  68. 
Pinchon,  see  Pynchon. 
Pine  trees,  prefervation  of,  1 1 . 
Pifcataqua  river,  6,  24. 
Plailled,  Elifha,  xviii. 

Ichabod,  elefled  to  Council,  2. 
Plymouth,  9,  23,  78. 

County,  29,  87. 
Policy  Pond,  64. 
Pookookappoy  Pond,  74. 
Port  Royal,  68. 
Porter,  John,  20. 

Samuel,  20. 
PofTeflions,  limiting,  30  ;  quiedng,  36,  37,  46. 
Powder  houfe,  Bofton,  9,   10,  13,  31,   26,  37,  73, 
75,  80  ;  charges  at,  74. 

Powers, ,73. 

Powning,  Daniel,  73. 

Pratt,  Joieph,  8. 

Prebblc,  Abraham,  xviii,  4,  I  5, 

Precepts,  examination  of,  2. 

Prince,  Samuel,  26,  38. 

Printing  of  votes,  ix,  34,  48,  52,  56. 

Prorogations,  34,  50,  56,  96;  notice  of,  52. 

Province,  annual  charges,  54;  houfe,  86;  land,  13. 

Pumry,  Ebenezer,  5. 

Puncapaog,  20. 

Pynchon,  John,  30. 

John,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  on  Hatfield  affair, 
92  ;  mentioned,  42,  43. 

QiJABOAG,  74. 

Quafon,  John,  75. 
Jofephus,  75. 

Quieting  of  pofleffions,  36,  37,  46. 

Quincy,  Edmund,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  on  Hing- 
ham  affair,  1 7  ;  takes  oath,  68  ;  on  Bridge- 
water  cafe,  76 ;  memorial,  87  ;  mentioned, 
4«.  43.  45.  46,  50.  5'.  56- 

Randall,  John,  xvii ;  cxpulfion  of,  8. 

Ranfom  of  captives  from  Indians,  43. 

Read  or  Reed,  Mofes,  xviii,  2,  77. 

Regillry  of  deeds,  25,  27,  33,  36,  37,  +4. 

Religion,  propagation  of,  81,  90. 

Remington,  Jonathan,  xvii ;  on  expired  laws,  6  ;  on 
treafurer's  accounts,  7,  10;  on  trade  commit- 
tee, 21;  on  fupply  of  treafury,  5 1  ;  on 
addrefs  to  king,  73  ;  mentioned,  32,  37,  47, 
49.  53,  61. 

Reprcfcnutives,  arreft  of,  1 6  ;  unnecefFary  journeying, 
88,  90. 

Rhode  Illand,  boundary  line  with  MafTachufetts,  3, 
25,  38. 

Rice,  Edmund,  xvii. 
Thomas,  xvii. 

Roads,  12,  15. 

Robins,  Jofeph,  10. 

Robinfon,  Captain,  78. 

Rochefler,  8,  38. 

Roc,  Peter,  petition  of,  25,  39. 

Rogers,  John,  xviii,  77. 
William,  20. 

Rolf,  Benjamin,  48. 

Roxbury,  49,  71 ;  free  fchool,  61. 

Ruffell,  Daniel,  25. 

Rudand,  21,  22,  53,  69,  87. 


Saffery, 


25- 


Sagadehoc,  2. 

Salem,  i  2. 

Salifbury,  79,  90. 

Saltonllal,  Richard,  Colonel,  83. 


Saltonflal's  farm,  70.  » 

Sergeant,  Peter  or  Power,  12,  86. 

Setdement  of  Eaftem  Parts,  9,  13,  14,  23,  32. 

Sewall,  Samuel,  ix,  xiv  ;  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  on  ad- 
drefs to  king,  7  ;  petition  of,  Hopkins'  legacy, 
26,  27,  38,  70,  80;  reception  of  governor, 
32;  addrefs  to  king,  73;  mentioned,  i,  41, 
69,  75,  83. 

Shantun  or  Shautun,  Jolhua,  33,  86. 

Shepard,  Jeremiah,  eleflion  fermon,  xi,  xiv,  3,  19. 

Sherbum,  4,  12,  22. 

Sherin,  Richard,  14. 
Sarah,  14. 

Skeffe  or  Skiffe,  Benjamin,  xviu,  I. 

Skinner,  Richard,  62. 

Small-piece,  John,  3,  4. 

Smith,  John,  75. 
Samuel,  75. 

Soldiers,  gifts  to  inlifled,  27. 

Southack,  Cyprian,  36. 

South  worth,  W.,  Captain,  xviii,  33. 

Speaker,  eleftion  of,  I. 

Spooner,  William,  28,  72. 

Springfield,  5,  11,  12. 

Stacey,  John,  62. 

Stanhope,  James,  x. 

Staples,  John,  7 1 . 

Stemes,  John,  Lieutenant,  xvii  ;  ele£led  monitor,  2  ; 
mentioned,  27,  35. 
Samuel,  xvii ;    complaint  againft,   and    caution, 

'3- 
Stevens,  Benjamin,  Captain,  xvii ;  arreft  of,  22  ;  men- 
tioned,  1 6. 
■  Stobo,  Archibald,  36,  37. 
Stoddard,  John,  5,  7,  13, 

Simeon,  18,  33. 
Stoughton,  William,  Lieutenant  Governor,  4,  27. 
Stow,  Daniel,  69. 
Stow,  27. 
Street,  John,  95. 
Stuart,  Hugh,  75. 
Sudbury,  10,  93. 

Suffield,  controverfy  over  town  office,  26,  39,  44. 
Suffolk  County,  tax,  29. 
Sutton,  8,  31,  62. 
Swampfield,  14,  45,  54. 
Sweetfer,  Wigglefworth,  29. 

William,  29. 
Sweetfor,  Seth,  16,  22. 
Synod  of  churches,  8,  17,  i8. 

Tailer,  William,  Lieutenant  Governor,  commiffion, 
xii,  xiii ;  eleftcd  to  Council,  2  ;  commander 
at  CalUe  William,  27  ;  reception  of  governor, 
32  ;  allowance  to,  56,  89  ;  fpeech  at  open- 
ing of  feffion,  59. 

Tantiufque,  16. 

Tappin,  John,  petition,  79. 

Tarbal  or  Tarbol,  Thomas,  xvii,  7,  9,  10. 

Taunton  North  Purchafe,  40,  65. 

Tax,  bill  returned,  14;  for  year,  18;  apportiontment, 
29;  poflponement  of,  11,  23,  24,  26;  law, 
35;  new  bill,  36,  39,  41,  45,  47,  48;  re- 
port, 46;  levied,  93. 

Taylor,  James,  petition  of,  30,  81. 

Thachcr,  Peter,  8. 

Thaxter,  Samuel,  Colonel,  xvii ;  on  petitions,  3  ; 
reception  of  governor,  11,  26;  on  road,  12; 
on  weflem  frontiers,  46  ;  on  addrefs  to  the 
king,  73  ;  on  trade  committee,  82  ;  men- 
tioned, I,  2,  24,  37,  43,  51,  53,  55,  62, 
66,  78,  81,  84. 

Thayer, 


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Thayer,  Samuel,  xvii. 
Thomas,  Solomon,  69. 
Thomfon,  Jacob,  Captain,  77. 
Tiverton,  licence  in,  53. 
Tomlin,  Sarah,  95. 

Thomas,  95. 
Tonnage,  rates  of,  18,  zo,  23,  24,  29,  30,  37,  41, 

49. 
Topliffe,  Samuel,  89, 
Toplham,  15,  47,  54. 
Towns,  tax  of,  32. 
Townfend,  Penn,  xiii ;  elefted  to  Council,  70 ;  takes 

oath,  72. 
Townftiips,  regulation  of,  88,  90,  94,  96. 
Trade,  report  on,  11  ;  difficulties  of,   59,   82  ;  with 

French  at  Cape  Breton,  38. 
Treafurer,   account   difallowed,    9  ;    report   on,    10  ; 

eleftion  of,  25  ;  allowance,  29,  31,  36,  45, 

56. 
Treafury,  fupply  of,  48,  50,  51,  52,  53,  54,  55. 
Trevot,  Richard,  62. 
Truro,  13,  19,  50. 
Truflel,  Henry,  64. 
Tucker,  Daniel,  16,  21. 

Ephraim,  xvii. 
Tufts,  Peter,  Captain,  xvii. 
Turpentine,  42. 
Tuthill,  Zechariah,  memorial  of,  17,  18  ;  arrears  of 

wages,  39,  76 ;  on  light  houfe,  90. 

Upper  Scituate,  78. 

Ufher,  John,  petition  of,  82,  94, 

Victualling  Caftle  William,  17,  18. 

Wabon,  Thomas,  69. 
Wachufett  Hill,  41. 
Wadfworth,  Benjamin,  Rev.,  8,  18. 
Wages,  furgeon's,  45. 
WainWright,  John,  Colonel,  94. 
Wales,  Samuel,  89. 

Walker,  ,  Admiral,  23. 

Walton,  ,  Colonel,  68. 

Ward,  Gerlhom,  87. 

John,  xvii,  17. 

Richard,  41. 

William,  26,  69,  71,  87. 
Ware,  John,  22. 

Warren,  James,  xvii  ;  death  of,  9. 
Watertown,  13,  43,  75,  85. 
Watts,  John,  4. 
Wells,  9,  15. 
Wenham,  20,  29,  30,  92. 
Wentworth,  John,  14. 
Wefton,  67. 


Wharton,  Bethia,  60. 

Dorothy,  60. 

Martha,  60. 
Wheeler,  Zebediah,  27. 
Wheelwright,  John,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  mentioned, 

4.  15.  4'- 
Whipple,  John,  7,  28,  70. 
Matthew,  7,  28,  70. 

,  tertius,  70. 

Whitcomb,  Jofiah,  petition  of,  72. 
White,  Edward,  44. 

John,  Captain,  xvii ;  elefted  clerk  of  the  Houfe, 
I  ;  on  Indian  commiffion,  36,  42  ;  allowance 
to,  56,  89  ;  on  loan  committee,  86,  94. 
Thomas,  4,  14. 
Whitney,  Richard,  27. 
Wilder,  Ephraim,  69. 
Willard,  Simon,  Major,  41. 
William,  Stephen,  61. 
Williams,  John,  Rev.,  5,  7. 
Samuel,  61. 
William,  Rev.,  67. 
Wilfon,  William,  xvii,  12. 
Wily,  Timothy,  xvii. 
Winchel,  Jofeph,  39. 
Wing,  Cord,  95. 

John,  95. 
Winflow,   Ifaac,  elefted  to  Council,   2  ;  takes  oath, 

69  ;  mentioned,  42,  46. 
Winter  Harbor,  9,  i;,  41,  47. 

Winthrop,  Adam,  Colonel,  xiii,  xvii ;  on  addrefs  to 
the  king,  4  ;  on  reception  of  governor,  1 1  ; 
on  Hingham  affair,  1 7  ;  on  light  houfe,  24  ; 
on  weftern  frontiers,  46  ;  on  fort  at  Winter 
Harbor,  47  ;  on  deftruftion  of  bills  of  credit, 
67  ;  eleftion  to  Council,  70  ;  takes  oath, 
72;  on  Ufher' s  petition,  82;  mentioned, 
I,  2,  21,  25,  53,  54,  55,  69,  71. 
Wait,  elefted  to  Council,  2  ;  petition  of,  16;  on 

reception  of  governor,  3  2  ;  mentioned,  49. 
Wait-ftiU,  6.  t 

Wolves,  killing  of,  78,  80. 
Woodbridge,  Jofeph,  16,  22. 
Woodel,  Gerfhom,  53. 
Woodward,    Samuel,    Secretary,   xii,    xiii,    60,   69, 

73- 

,  25. 

Woono,  Ifaac,  33,  86. 
Wootonookin,  74. 
Worcefter,  3,  12,  21,  34. 

Yarmouth,  78. 
York,  9,  29. 

Younglove,  James,  25,  39. 
Thomas,  20. 


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